Disclaimer: I don't own Frasier

Martin hadn't realized this before but the mother of the boy who shot him looked like Hester. He had gone through the parole hearing each year for the kid who shot him and he had actually developed a friendship with the mother of that boy. He never realized before that she had looked like Hester.

"My boy," the mother said, "He's a good boy. What he did was wrong but he was angry after the death of his older sister."

"You lost a child," Martin asked.

He too had lost his first born Louisa before Frasier was even born.

"She was my first," the mother said, "and my only daughter."

"Helen I know just how that feels," Martin said, "I lost my first too. She was my only girl. Her brothers never got to meet her. Frasier was in utero when our Louisa died."

The parole hearing started. At the end Martin was asked if he would like to make a statement.

"Actually," Martin said, "I want to speak for Alexander Roche. You see when I got shot I was bitter and angry. I could have died and I didn't see what the boy was going through. I believe that he has refined himself and I ask that you release him. However I stipulate that I would like him to be ordered to do volunteer services at a place where they help young men and women who are in troubled situations and I ask that he be on probation meeting five times a week with this doctor."

He wrote Niles' address and name down on a card.

"That is a reasonable request," the leader of the board said, "and one we will honor. Alexander will be released into his mother's custody with parole and therapy. He will be required to do 12,000 hours at the Center For Boys And Girls supervised-"

Martin raised his hand.

"I'll supervise him," he offered.

"Next case..."

After Alexander hugged his mother and Martin gave the boy a hug Martin hugged Helen.

"Thank you so much," she said,"But why did you do that?"

"Helen it's what my wife, Hester would have wanted me to do... and I know what you've been through," Martin said, "Alexander I'll see you at 10:30 tomorrow morning at the center"

"Yes sir," Alexander said.