Danny, Lindsey and Don arrived back at the precinct. Danny and Lindsey went up to the lab and began analyzing the evidence they had collected. "The bark that was in the front end of the Avalanche matches the bark from the tree that was hit," Danny said as he finished that analysis. He leaned on the lab table. "He definitely ran into that tree."

Lindsey shook her head. "What caused him to run off the road?" she wondered.

"Only he can tell us that."

They found that the blood in the Avalanche was Mac's. "You can tell that the airbags deployed," Lindsey pointed out. "So how did he hit the steering wheel?"

Danny thought about that. "Maybe we should look at the Avalanche a little more," he said. "We have to go over it anyway. However this got started was with the Avalanche."

"Right."

They went down to the other lab. They began inspecting the front of the Avalanche. "Looks like some hair here," Lindsey said as she pulled something off the front. "It's short." She looked closer. "Looks like a little blood too."

Danny scowled. "You think he hit…" Then he remembered when he and Flack had almost hit those deer. "He must have hit a deer!"

"A deer?"

"Yes. That night Don and I were going down that road, there was a whole bunch of them in the road. If Don had not been paying attention, we might have been going down that hill. Mac might have been distracted."

"So all this was caused by a wreck? But how did Cassandra Ross know that he would have a wreck out there and she could get him?

"She probably didn't. She might have seen it happen and just got out there and got him."

"What kind of person waits around to see somebody have a wreck so she can capture them?"

"One with way too much time on their hands."

They examined the Avalanche more and found more hair and more fingerprints. Then they moved over to Archie Woods' car. "He didn't hit a tree with the front end of this one," Danny remarked.

"Looks like he might have rolled down the hill," Lindsey replied.

"These types of vehicles are more likely to roll than a truck like that Avalanche."

"Cause they're narrower."

"Right."

Danny went around to the driver's side of the vehicle. "I don't see how she got him out of there," he said. "And I don't see how he survived as long as he did."

"Maybe she knew how to make him survive. She used to be a nurse."

"Maybe."

"She helped him survive so she could torture him?"

Danny shook his head. "I don't know, Lindsey. This woman has some major issues with men going on in her head."

"Tell me about it."

They gathered fingerprints from the car and everything else they could find. Then they looked at the third car. Danny opened the file on the other missing person. "Curt Flynn," he said. "This guy had a blue Mercedes." He looked at the car. "Yep, that looks like it."

Lindsey looked at Danny. "This car doesn't look like it was wrecked," she pointed out.

"So, now we have to figure out what business Curt Flynn had out there and how he ended up in the clutches of this maniac."

"Not going to be easy. That case is pretty old."

"The evidence may still be there though."

They inspected the car which was very dusty since it had been sitting in that barn all that time. However, they found some fingerprints. "Maybe this guy was out there at Cassandra Ross's house for some reason," Danny suggested.

Lindsey looked at Danny. "We have a lot of investigating to do," she said. "Do you really think this woman could do all this by herself?"

"I didn't see any signs of anyone else in that house."

"But could she have had help getting all that stuff down there?"

"Who would help her?"

"What about that farmer who lives out there close to her?"

Danny considered that. "I don't think that guy has anything to do with something like this," he said.

"Even if he didn't help her torture them, maybe he helped her hide the vehicles and maybe he knew it was going on."

"Then why would he help us?"

"Maybe she was holding something over his head."

"Like what?"

"You never know until you start digging. You know, when I was a little girl, I guess we found a hundred arrowheads when we were digging up a garden but no one knew they were there until we started digging."

"I guess that's supposed to mean that I need to dig deeper into Farmer John's life?"

"Maybe we should dig deeper into both their lives."

"Right."

They finished with the third vehicle and then went up to the lab. They analyzed the DNA from the hair and the blood. "Definitely from a deer," Lindsey said as the result came back. She looked at Danny. "So, Mac hit a deer and then what?"

"He must have tried to miss the deer but hit one of them from the way the skid marks look on the road out there. He left the road after he hit the deer and the truck just traveled down that hill…and I would imagine that was a pretty rough ride…and then it slammed into that tree after it picked up momentum from the ride down the hill." Danny paused a moment. "That must be why he hit the steering wheel. The air bag deployed when he hit the deer and then by the time he got down the hill and hit the tree, it had deflated. Those things deflate right away so that they won't smother you."

"So, we've figured out the wreck…but what happened after that?"

"Obviously, she knew the wreck happened and she came out there and found him. She got him out of the truck and took him to her house somehow."

"And then cleaned up that whole mess and towed away the Avalanche all by herself?" Lindsey asked.

Danny considered that. "It does seem like it would take at least two people," he admitted.

"But who would help her do something like this?"

"That's a good question."

They analyzed the prints from all the vehicles. "Mac's prints in the Avalanche," Danny said. "Archie Woods' prints in his vehicle. We have to assume these are Curt Flynn's prints in his car. He has no record. Then there are Cassandra Ross's prints in all the vehicles…" Danny stared at the readouts. "And of course, all our prints who have ridden in or driven the Avalanche. Then there are some unknown prints in the Avalanche and the other two cars as well."

Lindsey looked at Danny. "Now, who else's prints would be in all three vehicles?" she asked.

"Good question. This means that someone else has been in all three of these vehicles and that means it must have been someone who was helping her."

"We need to find Curt Flynn's body."

"It could be anywhere out there."

"But it would have to be somewhere that she could get it to in concealment and if we find out who helped her, we might find that body."

"She didn't care about concealing Archie Wood's body and she even threw his wallet and all that out with him."

"Maybe she didn't dump that body. Maybe her partner in crime did."

"Could be, Montana."

"I'm just thinking that she would have to have a pretty big secret over someone for them to help her do something like this."

"Yeah." Danny went into the computer lab. "Adam, I want you to find out all the information you can on Cassandra Ross and on John…come to find out, he never told us his last name. That guy that lives out there on the same road that the Ross woman lived on. He lives next door although it's not that close."

"Right," Adam said. He began typing in the computer.

"I want to know anything that could connect those two."

Danny went back to the lab where Lindsey was. "It has to be someone out there," he declared. "Mac didn't really know what happened after that wreck, I'm sure."

"Probably not," Lindsey agreed. "Even if he was awake, he might have been too disoriented to even know who was there dragging him off."

"I just hope he'll be able to tell us something to help us solve this mystery. It's giving me a headache."

"Whoever it is has no criminal record because their prints are not in the system."

"Only Mac can shed more light on this…I just hope he remembers something."