Major Edwards held the wallet up in front of Luke.

"Thank you, young man. From what I saw in this wallet, I have a pretty good idea where we can find your cousin now. Sampson!"

"Sir!" Sampson responded.

"Assist Mr. Duke to the sheriff's car. I'll thank you, sheriff, to see Mr. Duke to Dr. Appleby's office."

"He'll not see me nowhere!" Jesse exclaimed. "You ain't dragged me around all day ta let me go right when you're goin' after my nephew. And I'm gonna be right there when ya git to 'im."

"And he won't be by himself either." Luke added as Daisy nodded in agreement.

Major Edwards looked at the Dukes. The short time he had known them was enough to tell him they wouldn't take no for an answer. "Sampson, assist Mr. Duke into the Hummer."

"Yes sir!" Sampson replied, going to rope Jesse's arm around his shoulders as Luke took the other arm.

"Cooter, you'll get the General outta here, won't ya?" Luke shot back.

"Sure thing!" Cooter replied.

"Commissioner, I'm afraid you and your sheriff will have to stay behind, but stand by on the C.B. radio, in case we need your assistance."

"Yes sir!" Rosco replied with a goofy salute, which Boss frowned about.

It took only moments for Sampson to settle Jesse into the passenger seat of the Hummer before he climbed in the back next to Luke and Daisy.

"Where we goin'?" Jesse asked.

"Capitol City." The major replied.

"Capitol City. That's at least 20 minutes away. Seems to me that oughta be enough time for you to give us that long version you's talkin' about."

Major Edwards glanced at him before looking in the rearview mirror at Luke and Daisy's expectant faces.

"From what we understand…" He began after he had pulled onto the main road. "Tom Dewberry's interest with Bo Duke began in the office of Homer Appleby. Seems Dr. Dewberry overheard Bo telling Dr. Appleby about problems he was having with some nightmares."

"As hard as it is to believe, they come about after a couple of no good varmints from Bo's past kidnapped him and ended up burying him alive in a cemetery for a number of days." Jesse explained.

"Yes, I know." The major nodded. "And after he had a chance to really talk with Bo, Dr. Dewberry knew that too. He knew that the nightmares Bo was suffering from was a sign of post traumatic stress disorder, a disorder that is, unfortunately, quite common to our military men and women who serve on the battlefield. So he offered to help him get rid of them."

Daisy shook her head. "So he used what he knew about Bo to convince him that this drug would help him get rid of the dreams?" She shook her head. "I just can't believe it. Bo was never much to take even a headache pill."

"You're jumping the gun a bit, little lady. You see, I very seriously doubt that Bo ever knew that drugs were being administered to him."

"The hypnotism." Luke said, seeing where the major was going. "Dr. Dewberry convinced Bo that his dreams would be cured with the use of hypnotism, and while he was under, he administered the drugs to him."

"Well, you're on the right track. Bo did receive the drugs while he was under hypnotism, but the administer was not Tom Dewberry. It was George Foster, a former military M.D."

"A former military M.D.?" Jesse frowned. "If he's former, why's he still got an interest in the drug development?"

"Former or not, Mr. Duke, there's a lot of money to be had in the successful creation of this drug." The major explained. "Dr. Foster was a very active participant in the development before he was dishonorably discharged. That discharge came about when it was discovered that he conducted experiments with large quantities of military money and supplies beyond what was permitted for the research."

"So how does he fund his research now?" Daisy asked

"Before he left, he had come up with what he considered a successful formula. However, considering probable violent side effects, the military would never approve it for human testing. But Dr. Foster was determined. He figured if he found his own volunteer, one who had suffered a trauma such as your nephew did, and it resulted in a successful test, he would still receive all the praise, as well as a very generous amount of money. While searching for that volunteer, he met Dr. Dewberry, thinking one of his patients might fit the bill. As you can imagine, however, finding someone to volunteer for such an experiment can't be easy. After several failed attempts, they finally came up with the plan that was eventually carried out on Bo."

"Well that pretty much explains where they came from and how they got ahold of Bo, but we still don't fully understand how this drug's affectin' him, or what it's supposed to do." Jesse confirmed.

"The drug administration is a bit complicated. According to the notes we found that were created by Dr. Foster, there is an initial injection meant to prepare the body for the acceptation of the main drug. The initial injection itself carries some very nasty side effects, such as vomiting and high fever….seems the body recognizes it as a bacteria or virus." He looked at Jesse. "Those were notes specifically found concerning the test on Bo."

As the family took the news in, the major continued. "As far as the results of the main drug, we found no notes or information on that. But military notes recorded on animal testing of drugs using similar formulas reported violence."

"Well we can certainly confirm that for you." Luke replied, filling the major in on the events at the farmhouse the previous night.

"Sir, we're at a point where we can understand how Bo got involved, and what the drugs may have done to him, but what I still don't understand is what the military is hoping that this drug will do for their solders." Daisy admitted.

"Make them better fighters." The Major explained. "When you're on a battlefield, and you see people fallin' down around you, most people either feel sorry for them and want to help them orget scared and run the other way. Emotions often get the best of our solders. The goal of this drug is to temporarily numb the emotions so that they can concentrate on fighting rather than empathy or fear."

"So what yer sayin' is the U.S. of A. government wants a drug that'll take away their conscious." Jesse snarled.

The major had to nod. He had just admitted it. "Somehow coming from you, Mr. Duke, it sounds like a horrible thing."

"You don't think so? What if this drug got developed and one of the solders that was usin' it got off in town somewhere and saw somebody he's ordered to kill sneak off in a buildin'? And suppose he had a grenade on him. If they's a little local girl sittin on the steps of the building that enemy had just entered, is that solder gonna be able to stop himself from throwin' that grenade, knowin' that little innocent life was sittin' there?"

"Well…." The Major began.

"Don't stumble tryin' to come up with somethin', cause I figure you can't. Instead, tell me what yer thoughts are on my nephew."

The major sighed with guilt. "Well as you must realize, any strange behavior on the part of your nephew over the last few days was a result of the combined efforts of both hypnotism and the drug. How it has affected his dreams, as I'm sure was the doctors' main interest, is unknown. However, we fear….." He trailed off.

"Fear what?" Jesse asked as Daisy put her hand to her mouth.

"Well, from what we've heard on the phone tap at Dr. Foster's office, we fear that the results of the drug administration may be permanent. And that could be bad. Very bad."

"Luke!" Daisy whispered, burying her head on his shoulder. Luke and Jesse sat not knowing what to say when they suddenly came to a screeching halt in front of a run down motel.

"Sampson!" The major yelled, making everyone jump. On cue, he and Sampson jumped out of the Hummer, drawing their guns.

The Dukes watched as the pair raced down the walk toward the rooms at the end. Jesse then recognized the car he had seen at Boss's cabin parked in front of one of them.

As if it were a replay, Jesse watched as the major kicked the door to the room in. He and Sampson then rushed inside, emerging moments later with the two doctors, ordering them to the ground.

Luke and Daisy jumped out of the hummer and ran toward the room. "Where is he, where is Bo?" Daisy asked.

A loud crash nearby brought their attention to the room. They looked inside and were horrified by what they saw.

There was no doubt this time that Bo seemed to be going mad. He wandered around the room, throwing things against the wall, turning the mattresses over and just generally beating his fists on whatever he could.

"We were trying to fix it, we really were." Dr. Foster announced as he was being handcuffed. Knowing he was caught, he went ahead and explained what they had been doing. "We tried hypnosis, we tried giving him other drugs to combat the effects, but it just kept getting worse."

"Extreme violence. I was afraid of that." The Major mumbled.

"Do something for him!" Daisy wailed as she watched Bo smash his fist into a mirror, shattering it.

"I'm afraid there's only one thing I can do at this point, little lady." The major replied, raising his gun toward Bo.

"No!" Daisy yelled.

Jesse watched horrified as Luke tried to grabfor the gun, but it was too late.

The gun was fired.

And Bo fell to the floor, unmoving.

Speaking of extreme, I think that's what we can consider the Major's reaction.