It's been 6 months; Mary is 18 months old and beginning to walk all over and say "mama and dada."
This week, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Fair, was going on in town, and William, asked Julia if she wanted to do, and of course she did, and the inspector and George as well.
They drop Mary off at Mrs. Kitchen's and all arrive to the fair; and when they arrive George buys some snacks and tickets for the show, while Inspector wanted to try a lasso around a wooden horse, but didn't work.
"William, why don't you try?"
He huffs, "well, alright" he grabs the rope and swings it and lasso's a horse.
Julia gasps and claps for him, but the inspector looks at him with an annoying look.
William wins a cowboy hat and offers it to him, but he declines it. George comes back with tickets and William gives him the hat, which he absolutely loves.
They go sit in the stands and listen to Buffalo Bill, talk about the wild west and introduce Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Rawlins's and their amazing gun shoot out.
Mr. Wilcox then shoots, Rawlins's, twice, then the 3rd he gasps and collapses.
William, Julia, George and the inspector are immediately standing up and go to the victim to examine him.
Both Mr. Wilcox and Buffalo Bill are in shock and ask for a moment.
Julia immediately examines the body, and waves William and the inspector over, "the bullet knocked his teeth out, but didn't go through the skull."
"The bullet's speed, would have slowed down enough to be present and exiting" William said as he hunches over.
Julia nods, "no doubt, but I won't know more until I get him back to the morgue." But then she notices something and grabs one of her tools.
"Have you found something, Julia?"
She pulls out the object out of the victim's mouth, and gives it to William, "the bullet"
William examines it, "yes, but no marks on it"
Julia looks at the bullet, "William, the bullet hasn't even been fired."
"No, it hasn't, so where is the bullet that killed him?"
Julia looks down at the body, "I assume, back of throat or his spinal column"
William nods and ask for the body to be taken to the morgue, and interviews Mr. Wilcox about Mr. Rawlins's, or as he called him Jaws, and informs him they worked well together and how the shoot-out is just a trick. William informs the inspector of the trick and the two worked fine together and asked to get constables to search the haybales for the bullet. They arrive back to the fair, where George and Henry found the bullet. William also tells them to use this was paper he has paper and get the ground samples as well. Henry rolls his eyes, but gets to work.
(The Morgue)
It was a late night, but they were still at work, when William entered the morgue, "Julia"
"William"
He informs her of what Mr. Wilcox told him and they found the bullet.
"And you found nothing out of the ordinary at the show?"
"Oh, on the contrary, everything about the show is amazing"
Julia laughs as he talks like he a young boy, "well, that's what makes the show, so compelling isn't it? All the mystery and adventure?"
"Yes, well for me the audience, but I need to know the truth"
"Right, well, William, you're in luck, I have some very real and interesting findings for you."
"A slug, I expect?"
"Well, the bullet that killed Mr. Rawlins has indeed lodged into his spine, but as I was getting it out, I found out he only…" she begins laughing, "only has one real tooth"
William looks up at her, "all the others were false?"
"Yes, but gold"
"That's rather fancy, for a man earning $40 a week"
"My thoughts exactly, but there was something even more curious about the slug, I found." She hands him a vial of the slug
William looks at it, "a hollow-point, more commonly found in a rifle than a pistol"
"Exactly"
William leaves the morgue and goes back to fair to meet up with George and Henry, who found more slugs and began to theorize how the victim was killed, and they all thought a 2nd shooter. The next day, William tells the inspector about the theory and believes in it and ask Buffalo Bill to come to the station for questioning.
Buffalo Bill informs them that he wouldn't do a thing and can't see 50 feet without his glasses. He is let go and William talks to another suspect, John Werton, while the inspector questions, Annie Oakley.
They both head back to the station, where Julia informs them, there needed. Inspector tells him to take it, as he has work to do.
(The Morgue)
William and Julia both entered into the morgue as she begins to get mad, "it's most disconnecting"
"Disconnecting?" William asks
"The audacity to walk into the morgue and take such liberties" she says as she runs down the stairs then turns, "I must say, feel absolutely violated"
"Julia take a deep breath and tell me what happened? Did someone come in here and hurt you?" he says as she looked at her
Julia takes a deep breath, "no, not that" she slips the sheet, "Mr. Rawlins's head is missing"
William tries to hold back his lunch, "don't worry, Julia, we'll get to the bottom of this"
He turns and is about to head out the door, when he turns back around and gives her a passionate kiss, "I hope that makes you feel better?"
"It did, detective"
He leaves and informs the inspector about the victim's missing head and assumed someone is maybe after the gold. William thought the same, until he came to a conclusion that he remembered from hearing a story, that if a head is taken off a cowboy, it meant he was an outlaw and a bounty hunter caught them and the prize was the payment. William and the inspector, heads back to the fair and asks Buffalo Bill about it and he confirms that's true and the only bounty here was John Werton. They find him as he was trying to run; William grabs a horse and chases after Werton, grabbed a rope, swings it and lasso's the man.
Werton confesses that he did cut off Rawlins head, but didn't shoot him; William asked Wilcox if he knew that he was an outlaw and he didn't and asked if he was free. William set Wilcox free and headed back to the fair and did a test on Bill to see if he really couldn't see 50 feet away, by George putting up cards with words, but Bill had to put on his glasses to see, which confirmed he wasn't guilty.
William was about to head home, when George informed him, Wilcox has been shot and killed. They call, Julia and told her he would meet her the morgue.
(The Morgue)
"Julia, I'm sorry, I had to get you out of bed."
With an annoyed voice, "lucky for you, I was still awake with our child"
"This late?"
"Mary is has an ear ache, I was treating her and she was about to go to sleep, then you phoned"
"Oh, well next time, I will get home early and put her to bed"
"You better, I was glad Mrs. Kitchen was still awake, that she was able to get Mary down before I left"
William gulped and rubbed his forehead, "have anything for me?"
She huffs, "yes, Mr. Wilcox died of a single shot to the heart, but there were no powder marks."
"So, the killer was some distance from him?"
"Well, that's the odd thing is the bullet path?"
"Oh, how so?"
"Well, it ended into the left shoulder, shattered some ribs, before entering into the heart."
"As if the shot was fired from above"
"But that's seems unlikely"
"Yes, it does," then William has one of his visions, "Wilcox was bent over when he got shot."
Julia nodded, "that makes sense, but why was he bent forward?"
"That's what I need to find out"
"Well if I'm done here, I am going to head home to our child and put the blankets on the couch for you"
William nodded and left
The next morning, William wakes up with a kink in his neck and skips breakfast and heads back to the fair, to examine the crime scene.
He meets up with George, who says no one was around but heard gunshots, coming from Annie Oakley and the inspector, who got drunk and shot at targets.
William then sees a gun on the ground and realizes that Wilcox killer gives him a gun and he bents over to get it but then is shot.
William heads back to the station, and sees Margaret who is furious with him about the scotch bottles in his desk drawers that the inspector has been hiding. William tells her sorry and decides payback. He opens the inspector's door and talks loudly to him and informs him about a telegram. The telegram talks about another man who ran into Wilcox and Rawlins's, which the inspector tells him was just a legend. William still investigates and closed his door loud and laughs.
He talks to Werton about it and he remembers it and the name but didn't kill the guy. William heads back to his office and sees it covered with dirt samples on the wax paper from the fair ground, done by George. Inspector comes him and is impressed by George's collection and informs William about a letter and recognizes a name. He then sees something on one of the waxed papers, and picks it up with tweezers. It's a white horse hair and immediate knew who the killer was, grabbed some guns and headed back to the fair.
The killer turned out to be Buffalo Bill's horse groomer, because he wanted revenge on Wilcox and Rawlins's for the killing of his innocent father.
The case is closed and William has some damaged control to take care of, so he heads to the floral shop and gets a bouquet of yellow, pink and white roses and chocolates and headed to the morgues.
(The Morgue)
He enters into the morgue and sees Julia reading a book about the old west, "Julia"
"William"
"Good book?"
"Very interesting" and she sees the flowers and chocolate, "trying to get on my good side detective?"
"I am and I'm sorry, and hope this make things right" he says and hands the flowers to her
"Yellow, pink and white?"
"Yellow for our wedding, pink when Mary was born, and white for our first date."
"I didn't even remember the color of the flowers you gave me, when Mary was born."
William laughs, "you were quite exhausted, but you said they were beautiful"
"But, white, our first date?"
"We went for a walk and you saw a beautiful arrangement of white roses and I got you them"
Julia smiled, "I can't believe you remember that"
She gets up and gives him a kiss on the lips
"Want to eat some of that chocolate detective?"
"I rather, have something else" and he lifts her up on her desk and they make passionate love.
They head home and have a lovely dinner with Mary, and as promised Julia got a relaxing bath, as William put Mary to bed and unhooked the phone for the night.
Later that night, they made love again and he told her about how he got to ride Buffalo Bill's horse and lasso, John Werton from getting away and how he felt like a boy. She told him, "you are still young at heart, William"