I'm not sure how well I did with Grandpa Shawn's dialogue. It's a little different with the accent.

When Bo asked him to sign the exhumation papers for his beloved Caroline, Shawn's first instinct was to refuse. It wasn't right to disturb the dead. It was desecrating her grave, but when his boy told him of the coded message he felt compelled to agree. If there was any chance that his wife was alive he'd take it.

Of course, there was no way they were digging her up without him there. So he had followed Bo to the graveyard where Lexie, Kate, Tek, and Lucas had also gathered. Bo had told him of Lucas's theory regarding Sami's suicide note and he agreed completely. To think the note was forged was much more plausible than to think she would kill herself.

Looking past the workers digging up Roman, Abe, and Caroline's graves, Shawn studied Lucas. He knew what the boy was thinking, if Sami was murdered than maybe she was with the other so-called dead. The younger man never actually said it, but he could see the hope in his eyes. Personally, he would be overjoyed if Lucas was right, she was the only granddaughter he had left living in Salem.

A shout from the grave diggers broke his concentration. Bo had hired a separate team for each grave to speed up the process. It seemed that they had finished because the dirt covered coffins were out of the ground. Mentally, he prepared himself to see Caroline and his son's dead bodies as the men pulled the sealants off all three at once. Opening the coffins, there was a collective gasp.

"Empty! Me Caroline's gone!" his thick Irish brogue was filled with shock.

Shawn wasn't sure if he was horrified or hopeful. Kate and Lexie were exclaiming and yelling over their missing husbands. Hearing them so upset made him realize he was hopeful. If his wife, son, and good family friends' bodies weren't in their graves maybe they were out there somewhere, alive. Lucas let go of his hysterical mother and came over to Shawn, Tek, and Bo.

"Bo, listen to me; if your theory is correct and it looks like it might be, maybe there's more to it. What if it didn't stop at the stalker victims?"

Shawn knew what he was really asking, what if Sami's out there?

"What are you suggesting Lucas?"

"John or rather his body. What if this happened to him, too? Or if the graves are being robbed then we have to know. You could put some sort of tracking device on his body or in his suit when he's buried."

"It's an excellent plan, but there one hitch. If he's really still alive it wouldn't be right to subject John to whatever hell they're going through."

"If they are being put through hell, then that's all the more reason to do it. With the tracking device we'd be able to find them in a matter of weeks. Whether it's to save our loved ones or to find their missing bodies, we have to try."

"Me boy, Lucas here has a point. If someone is stealing corpses or keeping the dead hostage we have to know."

"Alright, I'll do it. We just have to keep this between us; no one outside this graveyard can know what we're planning. We don't want to get anyone's hopes up and I don't want you two to get too happy just yet. Lets not count our chickens before they hatch; we don't know if it will work."

He knew his son was right, but that wouldn't stop the crazy hopes. And he would bet Lucas wasn't the least bit deterred, either.