"He was only going to the North Shore to go over Sullivan's statements and help Sullivan prepare for the court case this week." Kono murmured as she stood outside Danny's cubicle, staring at the empty desk. She still could not believe that Danny was really gone. "I teased him about trying to sneak off, while Steve's away, to go and flirt with some models."

"Cuz…" Chin said softly, in an attempt to stop Kono's self-recrimination.

Spinning back to face her cousin, Kono was unable to stop her tears from falling, "He was supposed to be on the North Shore, Chin, what was he even doing on that dirt road on the Pali?"

"I don't know," Chin answered quietly as he walked across and hugged her tightly, the same questions that Kono was demanding answers to were also going through his mind. Questions he had no answers to.

The sound of the office glass doors swishing open pulled Chin from his depressing thoughts and releasing Kono, he turned and watched as Charlie entered the office.

He paused just inside the doors, glancing at Kono who had turned back to stare back into Danny's cubicle before returning his attention back to Chin. Walking slowly across to Chin, he handed him a slim manila folder as he told Chin softly. "I have my preliminary report of the accident."

Chin nodded silently and carried the manila folder unopened to the computer desk, not yet willing to read the forensic details of Danny's final moments as Charlie slowly followed him and hesitantly began his report. "The car was traveling about sixty miles an hour before Danny…" Charlie swallowed hard, casting a quick glance back at Kono who did not seem to be listening before returning his attention to Chin as he forced himself to continue his report as professionally as he could, "Ummm…before the driver lost control on the muddy road causing the car to leave the road and crash over the steep embankment. The fuel tank was ruptured as the car traveled through the undergrowth and the fuel ignited when the car hit the tree, engulfing the car in fire… There…there was no chance for…" Charlie look down, unable to look at either of the two cousins as he cleared the lump from his throat and continued, "There would have been no time for anyone to escape, even if they were able to get out of the car."

"Was there any possibility of any other cars being involved?" Chin asked quietly.

Shaking his head, Charlie answered, unable to force himself to sign into the computer and bring his findings up on the screen, "There were no signs of any other cars involved, all the tire tracks at the scene have been accounted for and there was no damage to Danny's car that indicated that he might have been forced off the road. All the damage to Danny's car is consistent with what I would expect to see from such a high-speed collision."

"Could the accident have been caused by some mechanical fault with the car? Maybe Danny's brakes failed or the accelerator…"

"I checked," Charlie replied softly, before taking a deep breath as he looked across at Kono who did not even appear to be listening to the conversation before looking back at Chin, "I'm sorry, Guys, but it looks like speed and driver error were responsible for the accident."

"He knew that road was dangerous when it's raining, why was he driving so fast?" Kono demanded as she suddenly spun around to face Chin and Charlie, her anger, frustration and grief bubbling over.

"Detective Williams might have known that that road was dangerous in the wet," Max Bergman announced as he entered the office. "But whoever was driving Detective Williams's car at the time of the accident might not have known the road was dangerous when it is raining." Kono, Chin and Kono spun around and stared at the coroner in surprise as Max as the coroner joined Chin and Charlie at the computer desk before handing Chin the folder containing the autopsy results, "My autopsy findings on the driver found in Detective Williams's car and I have come to the conclusion that the driver of the car was not Detective Williams."

"Are you sure, Max?" Kono asked hesitantly, unable to believe or even hope that the blackened body removed from the shattered remains of Danny's car was not Danny's.

Max blinked in surprise at Kono's question as he turned to face her, "Positive. Although the body was burned beyond recognition, making it difficult to make a positive ID, I used dental records to try and make a positive identification. They were not a match and I am confident that DNA results will confirm my conclusions, the man who died driving Detective Williams's car was definitely not Detective Williams."

"Then, who was driving Danny's car?" Charlie asked as he looked first at Kono and then at Chin in confusion.

"And why?" Chin frowned.

"And where's Danny?" Kono voiced the question that they were all thinking.

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"This was supposed to be just a simple job, just make sure that Sullivan knew to keep his mouth shut at the trial tomorrow! No one was supposed to get hurt, we were just supposed to scare him!"

"How the Hell did I know the cop would be there?"

"You didn't have to shoot him!"

"It was him or us, he was going for his gun! What else was I supposed to do?"

Michael Sullivan stopped struggling against the ropes that bound him to the chair as he listened in fear to the argument in the next room. His heart was beating wildly in his chest as the memory of the detective's bravery when the three armed men had stormed the house. Williams had tried hard to protect him, but the odds had just been too great. He swallowed the hot bile that rose in the back of his throat as he remembered the loud volley of shots before Williams had fallen, the side of the Five 0 detective's face and head had been covered in blood. Closing his eyes, he could still see Williams's motionless body lying on the floor and the burgundy puddle pooling beneath the detective's head before he was dragged out of the house.

"You going to bring the heat down on us, they're going to be looking for him."

"Let them look, they're not going to find anything. Kimo's getting rid of the body and his car. Even if they do eventually find his body there's nothing that's going to lead that dead cop back to us. So, stop worrying!"

"Stop worrying? Do you know even who that cop you shot was? He was Five 0, and not just any one of McGarrett's Five 0 three little piglets. Oh no. you had to shoot his partner- Williams!"

"So I knocked off McGarrett's partner, ain't no big loss, Bruddah."

"And what about Sullivan?"

Holding his breath, Michael strained to hear the rest of the conversation as the men moved away and he heard a door open.

"What about him?"

"He saw what happened to … "

The slamming of the door cut off the rest of the conversation and the terrified man began to desperately struggle against the ropes that bound him, trying to loosen them.