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Police officer Troy Roberts drove back to the station with Officer King and CSI's Davidson and Jackson. When doing a walk-through of the downstairs of the house he had opened Jim's work bag. Inside it he had found a large pair of scissors, he couldn't think of any reason for them to be in there which made him slightly suspicious so he bagged them as evidence. The four of them drove in silence, each lost in thought- Troy Roberts was wondering why Jim had thrown scissors into his bag –Maybe there's a reasonable explanation, I'm sure there is......-He thought, but his mind had other ideas- Maybe he was gonna stab his wife, or cut up the evidence, maybe..-

Officer Sally King was remembering the wedding vows she had read and feeling bad for accusing Jim before reviewing the evidence - I really hope he didn't do it. Just seems like there's too much evidence against him though. Those vows........they really love each other...or at least, they did.

CSI Jack Davidson thought about the food laid out in the kitchen-you just wouldn't cook dinner if you were planning to kill somebody. It doesn't make any sense. Why would they have the tables laid out....maybe he wasn't planning it, maybe he just lost his temper with her. No. I really don't think he's capable of harming his wife, he's a paramedic for God's sake; he spends his week saving lives not ending them-

CSI Ben Jackson tried to push away the image of Melinda being pulled from the car, but his conscience wouldn't allow it -come on Ben, think about it....remember that poor woman......all bloody, unconscious....SHUT UP- he warned himself-she was probably scared as hell too, she's been abused all this time and nobody did anything about it. Her friends did NOTHING, her family did NOTHING, YOU DID NOTHING! That's right Benny boy, you remember right?, you were there when she was found in the woods, you were there when they said the husband could be a suspect, you told everyone that 'Jim would never do such a thing', you were there while she lay in a coma, you let Jim in to visit her, you let her go home with him YOU ..DID ..NOTHING!- Officer Jackson's heart tightened as he thought of all the opportunities he'd had to stop this, all the opportunities he'd had, but ignored –this is my fault.-

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Officer Carla Smith and the big burly officer from before, Gary Hodges, walked cautiously down the stairs, carrying the evidence that CSI'S Doherty and Gray had found; the smashed up phone, the blood stain on the floor where Melinda had been laying, the blood on the bedside table, the bloody sheets, pictures of a dent made in a weak plasterboard wall, all implicating Jim in the casualty.

CSI Lauren Doherty walked through the bedroom, knelt beside the bed and picked up the telephone station, where the obliterated handset originally lay. Pressing the button on top she prayed for a dial tone so she could trace any 911 calls- I'm sure he at least tried to call an ambulance- she thought hopefully. The line was completely dead, not even a beep "Hey Gray, help me find their mains cupboard, I think their phone line's down" she yelled over her shoulder.

David Gray and Lauren searched the house until Gray came across the mains cupboard under the stairs "found it!" he yelled up to Lauren. As he shone his flashlight into the cupboard he gasped, the phone ling was completely mangled, like it had been hacked up by garden shears "JHEEZ! Lauren you might wanna take a look at this" Lauren came bounding down the stairs and her jaw dropped as she caught sight of the chopped wires. "No, I'm sure there's a reason, maybe they just had it fixed or something" she said hopefully, David looked at her sadly "Lauren, Officer Roberts said he found a huge pair of scissors thrown in Mr. Clancy's work bag. I think.....""Oh my god, he wanted to make sure that she couldn't call for help! Jesus, I thought he was innocent, I didn't think he would have hurt her, maybe...but I really thought....I guess I got it wrong.....but..." Lauren rambled "Hey don't beat yourself up Lauren we all make errors in judgement sometimes, we all hoped he was innocent" David took pictures of the phone lines and then they left the house. Their work was done. For now.

Jim Cried silently in the back of the police cruiser, driven by Officer Lewis, as it raced along the freeway, headed for Driscoll County Police Department-God, I hope Mel's gonna be okay, I thought she was alright.....she just tripped. No, she didn't just trip, she fell and hit her head....Hard. If I wasn't so busy bitching about Payne downstairs.....I would have been there to catch her.-Jim thoughts were broken off as a loud male voice came through on the police radio.

"Lewis, this is Gary Hodges from PD, you there? over"

"This is Officer Lewis. Over"

"Ambulance crew have a female domestic violence victim, ID- Melinda Gordon. She's being transported to Mercy General Hospital, suspect name- James Clancy, goes by Jim. I need to know Clancy's whereabouts. over"

"Suspect in transit sir. I'm driving him to PD as we speak. Do you copy?"

"I got you Lewis. Hold him until we're able to talk to the victim. I'm following her to Mercy, we need a statement ASAP. Over"

"Sir, well um.... It's just that, what do we do if she says it wasn't him? Do we take her word over the evidence? over"

"Lewis, turn me up" Officer Lewis turned the volume up on the radio so that Jim would be able to hear.

"All I can say is this, that poor woman will be scared to talk. She may defend her husband because she'll be scared that if we send her home with him, she'll just be in more trouble. We're gonna have our best counsellors on this and if Clancy did it, he will get what's coming. I'll see you at the station later kid. Over and out."

The radio beeped and then was silent. Jim was left reeling. He cried to himself as his heart crumbled.

"When will I get to see my wife?" his voice broke as he asked the young officer "If you've done nothing wrong, you could see her before the end of the night, but if she says you're guilty, it's gonna be a long time." Lewis said. "I'll see her tonight" Jim said, sounding sure.