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"Mary-nated", Way to Die #145, is the fifth death to be featured in "Today's Menu: Deep Fried Death", which aired on December 8, 2010.

Plot[]

The Longfellow couple hired Mary Mallon as their cook. What they don't know is that Mary was a killer. She has been suffering from typhoid fever. She is also a healthy carrier and infected other people by placing germs on her food that she cooks, and on the utensils. Her nickname was "Typhoid Mary". After being served, the Longfellows dig in and began to feel symptoms of typhoid fever. Over the next four weeks, the typhoid fever took action on the couple causing diarrhea and vomiting before finally, the Longfellows became Typhoid Mary's second and third victims and died thus sending them to heaven.

Transcript[]

([] is playing, Mary cooks)

Narrator: In 1908, if you could afford it, you hired a private cook. The Longfellows felt lucky to have Mary. She was a hardworker who kept their kitchen going and their stomach's full. What they didn't know:

(Mary draws the knife in the criminal way, Trippy String Death is playing)

Narrator: Mary was a killer...! She was wanted by the authorities for the death of a house full of member of her last job.

(But, Mary doesn't kill people by stabbing. She puts the knife on the table)

Mary: I forgot to give you a knife for the next course.

(Mary grins; before the Longfellow couple was on the table, Sneaking Suspicion is playing, Mary cleans the knife by licking and cleans the saliva with her armpit, Death by Brass is mixing with Sneaking Suspicion)

Narrator: She was the kind of a killer the world hadn't seen before. Instead of a knife or a gun, Mary used an invisible weapon: bacteria. You might recognize her by her more infamous name: Typhoid Mary.

(Mary also puts her breath on the spoon, cleans it with her cloth, Demonic Introduction is playing, footage of the early 20th century, plenty of hospital bed)

Andre Wakefield: Typhoid Mary, otherwise known as Mary Mallon, was famous as the first healthy carrier of the bacterium, Salmonella typhi. She...infected dozens of people, before she was finally quarantined at er, North Brother Island.

(Dreamy Dark Comedy is playing, Mary cooking)

Narrator: Mary had no idea she was a killer, being a healthy carrier of the typhoid bacteria, meant she would never get a disease herself. She just infected others.

(Mary starts to make some disgusting addition by farting on her finger and her finger on the meal)

Andre Wakefield: Typhoid fever is generally contracted under unsanitary conditions, that is it's carrying in the feces and the urine...of the carrier's, and it's transmitted to other people.

(Mary adds the same disgusting addition to the uncooked food)

Narrator: The only way to get typhoid was through contact with infected fecal matter. Mary was...hands-on in that department.

([] is playing, the Longfellows start eat the meal)

Narrator: Not long after hiring her, the unsuspecting Longfellows were feeling early symptoms of typhoid.

(Mr. Longfellow feels the headache, Dreamy and Dark Killing is playing, CGI human feels the fever in the first week with high temperature, the intestine boils)

Dr. Robert Winters: During the first week we see fever, nausea, vomiting and severe diarrhea.

(The second week, the diarrhea is felt; the third week, the human starts vomiting, the brain starts to be dizzy)

Dr. Robert Winters: During the second and third week, other organs become involved. Including liver, lung, heart and brain.

(The couple vomits)

Dr. Robert Winters: As the infection continues, untreated, these organs become more and more damaged, and by week 4, someone would pass to the point to no return, and people ultimately die from untreated typhoid fever.

(The Longfellows die, Ostinato Death is playing)

Narrator: The Longfellows were Mary's 2nd and 3rd victims,

(As Mary comes to the living room, she saw the couple died)

Narrator: she infected a total of 53 people before health officials finally caught up to her.

(Mary decides to flee from this instead of witness it)

Narrator: After 6 years in quarantine, she died of pneumonia.

(Recap of Mary adds fecal matters in the meal, Bittersweet Ending is playing)

Narrator: Mary might have been immune to the typhoid she carried,

(Mary flees from the crime she caused to the Longfellows)

Narrator: but nobody can beat the biggest bug of all...death.

Cast and Interviewees[]

  • Andre Wakefield - Historian
  • Dr. Robert Winters - Internal Medicine
  • Joanna Strapp - Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" (lead)
  • Lizzy Kimball - Mrs. Longfellow (lead:intended victim)
  • Chris Boas - Mr. Longfellow (lead:intended victim)

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Over the next few years, Mary continued her spread by infecting a total of 53 people before the health officials finally caught up to her. After six years of quarantine, Mary died of pneumonia.
    • This also makes this death the second-highest consecutive death in a story (The first is Radium Girls).

Segment Nicknames[]

  • The Mary Mallon Story (Spike TV)
  • Sick-Mess

Foreign names[]

  • Mary-nados/Mari Nados (Pun on "Marinados") - Latin American and Spanish dubs
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