Lisbon sat in the hospital room slowly going crazy. She understood why she was still here, knew that it was the best for her physically, but the inability to do anything to help the people she cared for was going to driving her insane. When she'd called Cho this morning and told him that she wanted to meet with him and Rigsby, it was because she knew that they needed it. As much as she was sure that they would deny it, she knew that both Cho and Rigsby were at a loss for what to do.

For a moment she wished that Jane could be there with them, helping to find Grace, before she remembered that it was his fault that they were in this position to begin with. No, that wasn't fair. It wasn't all his fault. There was blame to go around to all of them. A good portion of it fell squarely on her. She should have nipped Jane's insanity in the bud, but instead she'd allowed him to run wild.

And Grace…how did these men keep finding her? Lisbon felt sorry for the younger woman. All she seemed to want was a man to be there for her when she came home at night. Lisbon had long ago given up that dream, but Grace had been so young, fresh faced and naive when she'd first joined the team. Lisbon was afraid that this last incident had broken her for good. That there was no coming back for Grace. She hoped she was wrong.

She looked toward the door when she heard Cho and Rigsby out in the hallway. Not that they were talking, but the way they walked was very un-nurse like.

"Hey, Boss." Cho said as they walked in. Rigsby said nothing, just looked grumpy and sullen.

"Hey guys." She tried to sit up straighter and gasped. The pain was still intense. She was trying not to use the morphine, but it was hard. "How's it going?"

"Still can't really work. Jane's still in jail, Van Pelt is still missing." Rigsby said; a touch of bitterness in his voice.

"Right, well, life sucks sometimes. At least you two aren't in the hospital because a psycho shot you." She snapped back. "What matters is that we're here for each other, and for Jane, and for Grace."

"Yeah. A lot of good that's going to do." Rigsby muttered under his breath. Lisbon ignored him.

"Have either of you gone to see him?" She asked.

"He's not allowed to have visitors right now. But his lawyer might be able to get us into see him." Cho said, knowing that Rigsby had been so focused on Grace that he wouldn't have bothered to check.

"Any chance of getting in as law enforcement?"

"No. We've been put on a black list. The guards have been informed that none of us are to see Jane. And that he's not allowed to receive packages. A letter might be ok, but not with anything in the envelope."

"What the hell?"

"He's escaped from jail once. The DA successfully painted him as a renegade with no ties to the community who would think nothing of breaking out and going on the run. He's not even in the general population. And his bail has been denied."

"Lovely. Well, not much we can do there can we? At least not now. Who's his lawyer?"

"Some newbie public defender. I don't really see Jane ponying up the cash to pay for a better lawyer." Cho said with a huff.

"Maybe we can help him out. We know some people in high places that Jane has helped out. When we're done here, you two see if you can get in touch with any of them about helping Jane financially."

"Right." Cho said, looking at Rigsby who nodded after a moment.

"Any news on Grace?" Lisbon asked after a slight pause.

"Not really. Still no leads. There aren't a lot of man hours being dedicated to looking for her since it looks like she wasn't abducted. Her disappearance has been relegated to the locals, who don't really care what happened to someone who was dating a cop killer." Rigsby said.

"Cop killer?"

"No one told you? Turns out that O'Laughlin didn't just shoot you. He also shot the two local cops that were acting as surveillance. They never saw him coming, didn't even have a chance to pull their guns." There was an almost vicious tone to Rigsby's voice.

"What do we know about Grace?" Lisbon said, speaking firmly, wanting to bring Rigsby back to focus on what was important.

"Um…the town she was last seen in has a bus station that has a lot of buses coming and going. Seems it's a bit of a hub for the area. No one's checked the buses to see if she got on any of them. If she did, she could be out of the state by now."

"OK." Lisbon paused. She had to word this next part carefully. "Rigsby, I know you still love Grace, but you need to think about why you want to find her so much."

"What do you mean? I want to find her and bring her home. I love her, yeah; sure, we all know that. She needs me right now. I can help her get over that asshole that she was dating. I can help her."

There was desperation in his voice, and Lisbon felt for him. She wanted to be able to tell him that wanting Grace to come back because he loved her and because he thought he was the right man for her was a good thing. But she couldn't. She couldn't because she didn't think that it would help Grace. Because Grace had run away from the life that she'd had, because she was broken. Maybe beyond repair, though Lisbon hoped not.

"Rigsby, that's not going to help her." Lisbon said firmly.

"The hell it is! I'm her friend. I was her lover. I know how to help."

And as much as she wanted to believe him, she didn't. "We need to think about Grace right now and what she would want. We want to find her, but we need to make sure that it's not going to scare her away when we do."

The room was silent: Rigsby not talking, Cho knowing it wasn't his place.

"See what you can do, but don't push her if you find her." Lisbon said at last, known that Rigsby was going to do everything he could anyway.

Jane was sitting in his closet of a cell staring at the slit near the ceiling that served for a window and contemplating his life. Or what he now had that passed for a life. None of the team had been to see him. This bothered him. He figured that Lisbon would be pissed off at him, but that at least Cho would come to see him. There was a clanking at his door and he sat up.

"Lawyer's here." The guard huffed at him. The shackles were put on, and Jane shuffled down the hall to the room where he'd last met with his lawyer. After Jane was chained to the table, the guard left.

"Hello, Mr. Jane." The lawyer said cordially. "No news on your case, but I do have a message for you."

"A message?" As much as he tried to act disinterested, he was intrigued.

"A letter really, delivered to me by messenger just an hour ago. I thought you might like to read it. I suppose that your friends thought that by sending it with me it would get to you sooner and not be read by the guards. But, the note with it said that it didn't matter if I read it. So I did. You've managed to annoy a lot of people Mr. Jane."

The young man handed Jane an envelope that had already been opened. He recognized the handwriting on the front as belonging to Lisbon, and he smiled in spite of himself. He knew she would be in contact. He pulled the letter out of the envelope and tried not to let the disappointment show on his face as the letter appeared hastily written and was only on one sheet of paper. Putting aside his disappointment he began to read.

Dear Idiot,

As much as I'm sure you don't care that you're in jail and that your scheme to catch Red John has thrown the rest of our lives in to a tizzy, I thought you'd like to know that we still care about you. As I'm sure you don't care about your legal counse,l I asked Cho to see if he could persuade some of the people we've helped in the past to help pay for a decent lawyer for you. Not that your public defender isn't perfectly capable, but it's looking like you're facing capital murder charges in a very high profile case. That's not really something that someone who just got out of law school would be familiar with.

Because of the hell you've put the team through the past few days, I'm not going to be out of the hospital for at least another week. The doctors said that stress is affecting my body's ability to heal properly. Not sure why I'd have stress.

Grace is still missing. I'm sure you don't feel responsible for that at all. Rigsby is going to try and get you to help him find her. Please don't. I know you find the idea of them as a couple sweet and endearing, but this is not the time for Rigsby to try to save Grace. He wants to find her to fulfill some romantic notion that she'll come running back to him. We both know that if this happens, Grace is only going to pull further away.

Good luck with your trial. We've been put on a black list and can't come to see you, but we're trying to work on that. It's a bit hard when I'm still in the hospital and they guys are still on leave.

It wasn't signed, but Jane didn't need it to be. He'd never been one for following rules, but this time he thought he might be able to.