"I can't believe this," Jay muttered. He couldn't get the memory of Elle's brokenhearted expression and then her anger when she saw him and Zed out of his mind. "We messed up bad this time."

"Beyond bad," Zed murmured as he looked sadly at X's body. It had just been so easy to believe that X had hurt Elle with how much he seemed to hate her. If they had just not jumped to conclusions and waited for Elle to wake up and explain what happened.... Now X was gone and Elle was.... Zed didn't even want to think about what was going to happen to her. She rightly blamed them for causing her partner's death. How could that be fixed? He doubted very seriously that it could be.

Just then Dr. Zeeltor came in humming 'Pop Goes the Weasel,' earning him a glare from Zed and Jay. "Doctor, could you please not act so cheerful right now? We're in the midst of a crisis!"

"Of course. I'll just take Agent X along for his autopsy now. Wouldn't want to delay that." Zeeltor said as he got out an instrument and started to examine X. "Just have to check something and then it's off he goes."

"Wait a minute," Zed asked as he saw what Zeeltor was doing. The instrument he was using looked suspeciously like a stethoscope. Why would he need one of those now? X had been dead for over ten hours. "What are you doing with that thing?"

"Oh, sometimes the members of his species can go into a kind of suspended animation. Wouldn't want to start his autopsy prematurely," Zeeltor said with a chuckle as he finished his exam. "Fascinating! Well, I suppose I'll have to wait a bit on that autopsy now."

"Wait a minute! Are you saying that the dude's still alive?" Jay demanded. "How can that be? He hasn't been breathing for ten hours!"

"His species is fairly hardy. Don't worry, though. He'll be gone soon." Zeeltor reassured them.

"What?" Zed said. "What do you mean he'll be gone soon? Do something! Save him!"

"I'm afraid that it's a little late for that. The longest time on record for a member of his species to survive this is nine hours, fifty-nine minutes. The oxygen deprivation should be kicking in about now. I would say that he probably has five or ten minutes left."

"Well, do something!" Zed demanded again.

"There isn't much that I can do," Zeeltor said. "No one's ever figured out how to snap his species out of this suspended animation. The ones that lived came out on their own. Why are you wanting me to help him? I thought you were upset with him."

"He's innocent. He didn't hurt Elle. He was trying to help her!" Zed muttered as a thought suddenly flashed into his mind. "Elle! Maybe she could.... Jay, go find her and get her back down here fast!"

"Me? No way am I facing Elle with how upset she is! The woman used to cut people up for a living!"

"That's an order, son! Find her now!" Zed shouted.

"I ought to have wrote out a will," Jay muttered as he hurried out of the room. Elle was going to kill him when she saw him. He just knew it.