I don't know if it's karma, but in what other town could I go to a neighborhood to talk to people about an unusual number of bodies surfacing in the harbor and run into a film crew shooting a pilot called Reincarnation (actually, that's a working title, the Fox show doesn't have an official name yet) -- described by blogger David Zurawik in Z on TV as a show about "investigators who use the concept of reincarnation to solve present-day problems."

They were shooting a scene in which a man and woman walked arm and arm up the Broadway pier in Fells Point. I didn't stop to ask whether they'd try to solve the real-life mysteries of the bodies, or even they knew that two had been pulled out near where they were filming. I couldn't help but notice some of the crew members sported the old Homicide: Life on the Street jackets and they were just feet from the building used as in the show for the Baltimore Police headquarters (the signs are still up!).

Bodies in the Inner Harbor aren't unusual, but four in a month? Two were found in Fells Point, a third near the paddle boats closer to downtown and a fourth over by Fort McHenry. And yes, talking to fire officials, it is true that as the weather warms, the bodies float.

I plan to write more about this in my column in coming days.