As Mac watched Flack's unmarked black sedan drive away his cell phone began ringing. He unsnapped it from his belt and flipped it open not checking the id. "DA Hollings, I was waiting for your call."

Aiden continued to process the crime scene after Dr. Hawkes removed the body. She was looking over the living room one last time when she noticed something shiny in the ashes in the fireplace. She walked across the room to the fireplace and knelt in front. Her left hand was still grasping her tool kit on the floor next to her so she raised her pocket-sized flashlight and shone the beam into the ashes. She opened her tool kit and pulled on an extra set of white latex gloves for an added measure of protection then reached into the cold ashes and pulled out a large section of a broken glass. The ashes stuck to the glass as if there had been liquid in the glass when it hit. She fished around for several minutes before she found the last of the broken glass. She bagged it and sealed the bag with red tape that she wrote the time and date on. In her mind she kept repeating the words, "Be Thorough." She didn't want Danny going to prison for a mistake she had made.

From her spot next to the door, Stella watched the doctor as he did a cursory exam taking Danny's vitals, blood pressure, temperature the usual stuff. She already had a blood sample and a urine sample sealed and ready for transport with them back to the lab along with the sample of stomach contents that she got from Danny back at his apartment.

She could not bring herself to look away as the doctor checked Danny for any abrasions or other oddities. She watched as a lab technician entered the room and made quick work of taking another blood sample from Danny. The doctor quietly issued orders to the nurse and the lab tech; before instructing Danny to lie back and close his eyes. When he was satisfied that his patient was comfortable the doctor turned to the two officers inside the room.

Stella had been standing back against the wall next to Flack until the doctor turned to face her. She motioned for the doctor to join her outside while Flack kept watch over their friend.

"So, doctor what did you find?" Stella asked, coming quickly to the point.

Dr. Fred Wyman smiled at the concern he heard in the detective's voice. "I'm Dr. Wyman, from all appearances Officer Messer appears to have been given flunitrazepam or Rohypnol."

"The date rape drug?" Stella questioned a puzzled frown on her face. Her first thought was could Danny and Andrea have been experimenting with the drugs? She knew better than that so her next thought was who would want to drug Danny and frame him for murder.

"Yes." The doctor explained his findings; "I've seen this quite a bit lately in a lot of club age patients. He's somewhat older but it's not unheard of. I won't know how high the levels are until the tox screen returns. I've ordered a CBC, chem. 7, a complete toxicological work up, a urinalysis as well as an EKG. His pulse was slower than a normal healthy male of his age range so I want to be certain that no permanent damage has been inflicted."

"I'll need copies of all those results." Stella told him then asked,

"How soon can he leave?"

"Of course." Dr. Wyman nodded then looked around at his patient and said, "I've started Officer Messer on a normal course of reversal medications that also include an injection of morphine to combat the headache mixed with phenergran to alleviate the nausea. If the tests results do reveal Rohypnol the medication that I have started him on should help reduce the effects of the drug and his system should be completely clean in seventy-two hours. When he wakes up in a few hours if he is feeling better and the headache is gone then I will release him."

"Thank you doctor." Stella joined Flack in the room with Danny who was now sleeping soundly.