Danny was arguing with the Chief about a warrant. "We know this woman must have had something to do with the disappearance of the victim and now, Mac," Danny declared. "We need that warrant."

"I asked the judge, Messer," the chief replied. "He doesn't feel that you have enough to go on yet to get a warrant. We don't need anymore lawsuits in this city."

"Chief, this is not about a lawsuit. This is about Mac's life! We need that warrant!"

The chief sat down in his chair and thought a moment. "Do you have the glass analyzed yet?" he asked.

"It's being done now. Chief, the tree out there was painted to keep anyone from noticing. That should be enough to say that someone close around there did this."

"I agree, Messer, but when you get the glass, we'll get a different judge and we'll get a warrant."

Danny sighed and paced a moment. "Do you want Mac to end up like Archie Woods?" he asked.

"Of course not. Don't ask me that again. You get that evidence and we'll do something about it. You know the rules, Messer."

"Yes, sir, I do."

Danny left that office and went back to the lab. "Please tell me that you found out that glass is used in Avalanches," he said.

"No, it's not," Lindsey replied.

Danny slapped the lab table. "What about Lincoln Navigators?" he asked.

"Adam is still checking into that."

Danny paced around again. "This is crazy! We have to have some sort of proof so that we can get a warrant!"

"Okay. What about the road? We didn't really examine it thoroughly. Where is the Avalanche? They had to pull it out there. Maybe something fell off or maybe it leaked."

"I think this woman was so careful that there would not be anything out there to find."

"We can't give up."

Danny looked at Lindsey. "I'm not going to give up. Even if I have to obtain evidence illegally, I'm not going to stand here while she tortures Mac to death."

"What are you planning to do?"

"Don and I are going to do what he suggested. We're going to stay out there at night and we're going to find something that wasn't seen before even if we have to trespass."

Lindsey understood how Danny felt. "Just be careful," she said.

"We will."

Just then, Adam came in with the results from his test. "The glass is not specific to any particular vehicle," he said. "It is used in Lincoln Navigators but it's used in other cars too."

Danny felt like every time they had a little hope, it was squashed. He got his phone and called Don. "Anything?" Danny asked.

"Cassandra Ross was fired from her job at the hospital she worked at," Don said. "Patients had complained about her being 'unsympathetic' to their pain and that she made them get up even when they were in severe pain. Four patients died in her care from heart attacks and none of them had any prior heart problems."

"So…what? Do they think she did something to them to cause them to have a heart attack?"

"Those patients had complained about her being cruel to them and causing them pain."

"Don, I'm afraid you and I are going to have to spend the night together," Danny said.

"Just so long as I get to pick the spot."

"We may have to deliberate on that."

"What do you have in mind?"

"I'll tell you when we're not talking on a phone."

"Great. When will that be?"

"Soon. I'll come down there."

"Alright."

Danny put his phone away. "It won't be long until time," he said.

"Just don't end up being another victim," Lindsey said.

"We won't. I think we're going over to Farmer John's house and stay over there on his property and see what we can see and maybe we'll go a little further and pretend we didn't know if we can find an area without a fence."

"Danny, just be careful."

"We will. Hug and kiss Lucy for me and tell her I'll be back before she knows it."

Mac was lying on his side now. He stared at the floor and then at the fireplace poker. He had no other way to get to it but to fall off this bed and he knew that was not going to be a pleasant experience. He closed his eyes and took two deep breaths…or as deep as he could take. He opened his eyes and eased over to the edge of the bed. He did not want to hurt his only good arm but he figured there was no way to do this that would not result in excruciating pain. He moved a little closer to the edge and then rolled over the edge and let himself fall to the floor. He groaned loudly as pain shot through his broken limbs. He took a moment to get his breath back and then looked toward the fireplace which was right beside the door. He got up on his elbows and began pulling himself toward the fireplace. He remembered doing something like this in the Marines but he had never done it in pain like this.

Mac pulled himself slowly toward the fireplace with every movement being sheer torture. His head was pounding as well and he knew he still had fever. As he was approaching the edge of the fireplace, he heard the door knob. Mac stopped and gasped. He thought of turning around and trying to get back to the bed but he knew he would never make it in time. He lay his head down on the floor and waited for her to come in. He heard the door open feeling panic inside.

Cassandra walked over to him. Mac could see her feet. "Where did you think you were going?" she asked. "You can't get out of this house."

Mac was relieved that she thought he was going to the door but he wondered what she would do to him. She grabbed his arm and turned him over roughly. She ignored Mac's agony. "Where did you think you were going?" she asked again.

Mac just glared at her. Cassandra dragged him back over to the bed and got him back up on it. She leaned over him. "What did I tell you I was going to do if you tried to get away?" she asked.

Mac swallowed hard. "I guess I will just have to show you that I mean what I say," Cassandra said.

Mac watched as she went over to the fireplace and got one of the tools…the same one she had used to break his other leg. "NO!" Mac yelled. He would not allow her to break his other arm. He would certainly be helpless if she did that.

"Don't argue," she said. "You have to have discipline."

Mac tried to move over to the other side of the bed but Cassandra got onto the bed and straddled him. "Hmmm, this is an interesting position, isn't it?" she asked.

"Get off me!" Mac yelled.

Cassandra grabbed Mac's right arm but he jerked it back. Mac had never punched a woman in his life but at the moment, he forgot that. He drew back and punched her as hard as he could which knocked her off the bed. Mac looked down at Cassandra who was not moving at the moment. He was afraid it would not be long before she would though. He tumbled off the bed on the other side and headed for that fireplace again. He did not reach the fireplace before Cassandra grabbed his ankles and pulled. Mac felt the bones in his legs scrub against the ends that were broken. He cried out with pain but he was not going to let her break his other arm. "Let go of me!" he yelled.

"You're not going to get away from me!" Cassandra screamed as she pulled on his legs again.

Mac thought he would die. He threw up as she began to drag him back toward the bed. He watched the fireplace getting further away. He had to get that weapon. He remembered the one that she had been planning to use to break his arm but he could not stab her with that one. He soon saw the end of the bed so he grabbed the leg of the bed with his right arm. Cassandra jerked at him. Mac would not give in but he thought he was about to pass out but then he felt a pain in his back. He lost his breath and then he did pass out.

When Mac woke up, he could tell that it was night outside the window. He almost whimpered as he remembered what had happened and felt the pain in his back. He thought she must have broken a rib in his back and he was lying on it. He looked toward the fireplace and saw that the tools were still there. He had no idea how long he had been unconscious but he did not think she would be back tonight. He started to roll over but the pain in that rib in the back was worse than the pain in the front rib. He would have to go on or he was going to die here.

Mac got himself into the floor again. He did not know if he had fallen asleep after he got down there or not but he looked toward the fireplace and started dragging himself that way again. He finally made it to the fireplace and got the poker from the tool rack. He stopped a moment to get his breath and then headed back to the bed taking the poker with him. He was not sure where he would hide it but when she came back in the next morning, he was going to have a surprise for her. He got back to the bed and got himself up to sitting. He put the poker under the covers on the bed and then got himself up onto the bed after a long, exhausting try.

Mac lay down on the bed. He was totally exhausted now but he turned over on his back and got the poker to his right side and pulled the covers up over him. Yes, he would have a surprise waiting for her the next day…but now, he had to sleep.

Don and Danny were creeping through the woods between Farmer John's house and Cassandra Ross' house. "I can't believe I agreed to this," Don said quietly.

"You thought it up," Danny pointed out.

Don thought a moment. "Oh yeah. I did, didn't I? But I suggested we stay in the car all night."

"Yeah, but in the car, we can't get out here in the woods."

"Right."

They finally found a place where they could get off John's property in the back of Cassandra's. "Where do you think her property begins?" Don asked.

"I don't know," Danny replied. "Let's just see if we can find something weird."

They trekked through the woods for what seemed like hours until they came to thicker trees. "This must be where hers begins," Danny whispered.

Don looked at him. "Why are you whispering?" he asked.

"Cause I have an eerie feeling."

"You too?"

Danny looked at Don. "I really think something is messed up around here."

"I agree." Don slapped a mosquito on his neck. "And it may start with these maniac mosquitoes."

"Can't you put on some Off?"

"I didn't bring any."

Danny opened the forensics case and took out a can of Off. "Now put on some," he said.

Don sprayed some of the smelly spray on him. "I always hated the smell of that," he said.

"You hate everything."

"No I don't."

"I haven't heard you do anything much but complain since we got on this case. You don't like the woods or nature or anything that isn't made of cement."

"Hey, I'm a city guy and I admit it."

"Anyone can tell that."

They found a good place to settle in and took out the binoculars. Don laid out a tarp before he got down on the ground. "I see a light over there," Danny pointed out.

Don strained to see. "I see it too," he said. "What do you think it is?"

"Not sure but it looks like a light in a window."

"A window? Like in a house?"

"Yeah a house."

"You think she has another house out in there?" Don asked.

"Anything's possible," Danny replied. "If she does, she could be keeping Mac there and she could have the Avalanche out there."

"So what are we going to do to prove it?"

Danny looked at Don. "I'm going out there and doing some snooping around," Danny said. "Even if she gets off on a technicality because of illegal gathering of evidence…at least we will save Mac's life."

"I understand that," Don replied. "But we could get a private investigator to do it if we can't see anything to get a warrant."

"We don't have time for that. You saw what happened to Archie Woods. You want to stand over Mac like that?"

Don sighed. "No but you better be careful."

"I will and stay in touch."

"Right."

Danny headed further into the woods from where they were. He could not hear anything and he did not see anything but woods until he got out of sight of Don. Danny almost ran right into the wall of a house as he was going through the woods because it was completely obscured by the vines and trees and everything else that was growing around here. "What?" Danny said to himself. He shined his light on the wall as he pushed some of the vines away. The house was definitely made of brick. Danny looked up at the house which looked like it was all of two stories high. He could definitely see the faint glow of a light in the top of the house. However, he had no business inside this house and it was not illegal to have another house. He had to find something else. He went around the corner of the house, which was not an easy task since it was completely surrounded by trees. He thought these trees must have been growing for years with no one disturbing them. It was like the house had become a part of the forest. He managed to get to the other corner of the house but he could not see much past it. He went around to the front of the house which was totally obscured with vines and trees. He wondered how anyone could get into this house but he was sure there was a light on in there. He went on toward the house that Cassandra Ross lived in. However, before he got there, he found a barn. It was surrounded by trees as well but not the front of the barn. There was a clearing here and a trail to the house that the woman lived in. Danny stared at it. He wondered if the Avalanche was in that barn. He had to know…