Horatio smiled as he remembered something. "I got it." He left the garage area and went to a Botanica store.

"Horatio Caine." The young lady greeted as Horatio entered her shop. "What do I owe the pleasure of your company this afternoon?"

"I need to know who recently purchased a synthetic form of tetrodotoxin." She remained quiet for several seconds.

"Horatio."

"Come on, Lavinia. We can do this the quick way..." "Fine. Wait here." She went to the back room and came back with a notebook. "A man by the name of Josh Lee." She showed him the copy of the receipt. "You keep this between us. I can't lose my customers."

"This customer you can afford to lose. He almost killed 2 young men last night." When she gave him a confused look. He continued. "Gave them a large dose of tetrodotoxin and left them in the 'glades to die."

"Josh is a very spiritual man. There is no way he would bring harm to any man. Will they be alright?"

"They will be."

"There was a younger man with him. Josh may have gotten it for him. He looked like he was afraid of him."

"Do you have any cameras?" Horatio looked around the small area.

"Of course not."

"Had to ask." Horatio looked at his watch and back to Lavinia. "Be more cautious on who you sell to next time." She smiled and nodded her response. "Take care."

"You as well." As Horatio made his way towards the door she added. "Horatio, you are always welcome here, anytime." Horatio turned to face her. He never noticed how pretty she was.

"I think I'll take you up on that."

"Friday night?" She asked.

"Friday it is." He smiled as he turned to leave. The smile remained on his face for the rest of the ride back to the lab.

"Got a name." Horatio told Walter. "Josh Lee." Walter put the name in the system.

"No record. I'll check the DMV files." He put the name into the DMV data base. "Here you go."

"Let's go." Walter followed Horatio to the Hummer and they made their way to Josh Lee's house.

"What can I do for you?" Josh asked as he looked at their ids.

"You made a purchase several days ago. A synthetic form of tetrodotoxin."

"It's legal for me to possess."

"Not legal for you to purchase for someone else."

"He will kill me." Josh whispered to him.

"We can protect you."

"Not from him." Josh replied.

"Come with us." Horatio replied. Josh looked around and went with them. They made their way back to the lab and they took Josh to the interview room. After several questions it was decided that it would be safer for Josh to be placed at a safe house. After the arrangements were made, Horatio decided to go back home for the night.

^^^ Several hours later near 1 am at the lab^^^

The vet tech came back into the garage area and saw a man next to the horse.

"Excuse me sir. You're not allowed back here. You need to leave." The man grabbed the chair that was near him and threw it at the lady. She moved out of the way in time and ran for the alarm. As the alarm was going off, the man ran from the room. The lady quickly made her way to the frightened horse.

"It's okay." She repeated several times to the horse as she tried to comfort him. When it was apparent that the horse wasn't calming down, she picked up the phone.

"Horatio, this is Jamie. I need you to bring Bo Duke over to the garage. Someone tried to steal his horse and long story short, the horse is very agitated."

"We'll be there shortly." Horatio went to the guest bedroom where the boys were sleeping.

"Bo?" Horatio gently shook Bo's arm to wake him. "Bo?" Bo slowly woke up and looked at Horatio. He looked towards a sleeping Luke, then back to Horatio.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone tried to steal your horse. The vet tech, Jamie needs your help to calm him." Bo nodded and sat up. He walked over to where Luke was sleeping and shook his foot, in an attempt to wake him.

"Hey, Luke?" Bo shook his foot again. "Lukas?" Luke opened his eyes and looked at Bo concerned.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, someone tried to steal the horse. They need my help to calm him down." They both got their clothes on and all made their way to the garage. They noticed that the horse was pacing back and forth. Bo slowly made his way to the horse.

"Hey, baby. It's alright." Bo said as he got near. When the horse saw Bo he walked up to him and placed his head onto Bo's shoulder. Bo gently pet him on the side of his head and continued to for several minutes.

"Could we take him to your place?" Bo asked Horatio.

"That won't be a problem. But we do need someone to stay and watch over him and you two."

"What do you mean? Watch over us?" Luke asked.

"The man that tried to steal the horse is still out there."

"If he took the risk of breaking in here, he sure as hell will go to Horatio's for him." Bo added.

"That is correct." Horatio replied. Horatio turned towards Luke and added. "We need a decoy truck that Bo will drive and you can drive the truck with the horse." Bo turned around and looked at Horatio.

"Can't do that, Horatio." Bo turned his attention back to the horse. Horatio looked at Luke and said. "I don't understand."

"Bo hasn't driven a vehicle on the road in 3 years. Long story."

"I see." Horatio thought for a moment. "We can have a couple of my guys drive the trucks with you two." Horatio left and went to talk to David. As Horatio entered the room, David was surprised to see him.

"When I went onto 3rd shift, I didn't expect to see you here this early. What's up?"

"Working on a double attempted murder. Two young men from Georgia, Bo and Luke Duke. Things got complicated. Someone tried to steal their horse and attempted to kill them over it. Tonight someone tried to steal the horse from the lab."

"So that's why the alarms were going off. What brings you here to me?"

"We have to take the horse to my house and need a decoy truck as well."

"What do you need me to do?"

"You'll pretend to be Bo and Ryan is being Luke. I guess Bo doesn't drive anymore."

"Bo Duke? You're tellin' me that Bo Duke doesn't drive anymore?"

"Yeah, you know him?"

"Know of him." Horatio gave Dave a confused look. "He drove in NASCAR for almost a full season. Won 7 races, 8 if you include the one that Luke finished for him. Man was rookie of the year. Could have been the next Petty."

"Why did he leave?"

"No one knows. He was injured on the way to a race in Mobile. Suffered a sever concussion and several broken ribs, so Luke had to finish the race for him. After the race, they just walked away. Last I heard they were still racing on the local dirt tracks with the General Lee." Dave answered.

"The General Lee?"

"Their race car. A 1969 Dodge Charger."

"They named their car?" Horatio was now confused.

"Sure. Fastest car in three counties. It's rare that they lose."

"Well, we should get going." They went to the garage and loaded the horse into the trailer. "We'll meet you at Horatio's." Bo nodded at Luke's comment and got into the truck with Ryan. While Dave and Luke got into the other truck that was hauling the horse. Horatio was in the back with the horse.

Ryan and Bo went the long way to Horatio's as Luke and Dave took the back roads.