Matt lay shot behind the podium, from a former disgruntled employee of a man he had sent to prison the year before. Elizabeth is beside herself and C.J. quickly comes over to see if Matt is still conscious. Houston has lost consciousness. C.J. thinking well on her feet , rushes over to Matt's helicopter he had flown on earlier as not to be late to the rehearsal earlier that day. C.J. started the choke,gets Uncle Roy and Lt Hoyt to help get Houston into the helicopter and races off with him to get him to the hospital and essentially saves his life.
As C.J. is cleaning up her hands and changing her blood stained dress from that days events, the doctor that takes care of Matt comes into his hospital room and lets him know if it weren't for the frog lapel pin placed next to his heart earlier, that day by C.J., he probably would have died. See the bullet had ricocheted off that pin and only caused minor flesh wound damage as apposed to the major damage that it looked like it had done. Matt was completely in awe of what C.J. had unknowingly done. C.J had pinned the frog lapel pin on his suit earlier in the day,saying with tears in her eyes that she had found her prince years earlier and wished him only happieness. That declaration from her only stung and saddened him and stayed with him the rest of that day. He wished he had known how she felt sooner he thought. He really had been clueless because they had agreed some years earlier to keep what was between them only the best of friends ever. It not only had been that day that he had that eye opening experience but for awhile now, he was uncertain whether he should be marrying Elizabeth. He thought maybe it was nerves but after C.J. had given him that pin, he knew he couldn't go through with the wedding. He had to assume the only reason he wanted to marry Elizabeth in the first place was that he loved the idea of getting married and having a family..just not..he thought.. With Elizabeth.
Unbeknownst to C.J., Elizabeth had called Matt while C.J. was getting cleaned up. The two agreed they needed to talk about what had just happened and Elizabeth informed Matt she was on her way to the hospital, so they could do just that. In the mean time C.J. came back into the room, but by then Matt was already off of the phone and C.J. had no idea that Elizabeth was on her way up there to talk to Matt. So C.J. proceeded with what she had always done best, take care of Matt. As she was getting him something to drink and getting him his medicine, he said to her ."Elizabeth will be stopping by, and I need for you to give us a few minutes alone." C.J. was a little taken back, because Elizabeth had taken so long to show up, she was beginning to wonder if she was coming to the hospital at all. "Ok, I can just go ahead and go home and leave you two alone, she said, thoughtfully. Matt said emphatically "No, don't leave the hospital, she won't be staying." He had said with a sheepish grin, and her heart melted, she gave a little smile back afraid of what she wanted to happen, not indeed happening. Matt and C.J. knew it was happening, they gazed into each others eyes for what seemed like for ever, then their tranz was broken, the door opened to the hospital room and in walked Elizabeth. C.J. did as Matt asked and excused herself saying she was going for coffee and Matt leaned up and kissed her cheek, as in a gesture of reassurance. It worked C.J. left with a slight smile on her face and hope in her heart.
Elizabeth got right to why she was there and it wasn't to talk about rescheduling the wedding. Elizabeth told Matt how much she loved him but… couldn't accept what he did for a living and what had happened at the rehearsal proved that for her, once and for all. She could not handle the man she loved constantly putting his life in danger and being in danger from past cases that he had worked on. It was a relief for Matt, Elizabeth. was there to break things off with him….