A day or to later Max, the Petes, and Roxanne were in the recovery room when the detective who'd taken up the case burst into the room.
"I've figured out who the perp is!" He shouted excitedly.
PJ Pistol practically flinched out of their seats before PJ recollected himself and asked "Who might that be."
"Patience. First I'll lay out all the facts then answer should become obvious." The detective half answered as he stepped into the center of the room and began to tell his story. "When I got this case my first thought was to investigate the last person to hold these sandwiches but he didn't have access to the tools used for the job and according to all relevant testimonies PJ didn't have solitary access to the sandwiches for long enough to tamper with them. Even when he was in the car Pistol was there with him and would have noticed such tampering."
At that last statement Pistol shifted uncomfortably in her seat but didn't say anything.
"After determining there was no way PJ could have done it I moved on to my next suspect." The detective said as he shifted his attention across the room from PJ to Roxanne. "I had my doubts coming into this part of the investigation that I'd find anything considering the lack of any motive. I started by looking at the sandwiches which seemed had little indication of being closed and reopened. Another thing was that she chose not to hand deliver the sandwiches on the day they just so happened to be booby trapped. Finally, and most damning, I decided to check and found inside her purse a half empty container for the same awful things Max bit down on. With all that considered. Why'd you do it?"
The detective had pulled out the handcuffs and started toward Roxanne when Pistol finally spoke up. "But she didn't do it. it was PJ who did it as a prank. He said that it got a little out of hand and that I had to stay quiet or he'd be in trouble."
Suddenly the whole room was locked on PJ and Pistol and the detective asked "Would you care to backup that claim?"
"Yeah sure thing you see me and big bro were in the car and he said he was gonna prank max by putting those little metal thing from that box in Max's sandwiches and showed me how to carefully open a sandwich so that it would look untouched then he poured them all over the sandwiches like salt and gave them to Max we didn't talk about it again much until yesterday night when PJ told me that I couldn't tell anyone about the car trip or we'd be in big trouble but ohhh." Pistol stopped a moment to think before beginning to cry and asking "I'm not in big trouble now, Am I?"
"No you're not in any trouble." Peg said soothingly as she comforted Pistol before glaring daggers at PJ and angrily saying "PJ on the other hand is in serious hot water!"