Sara had been gathering evidence of a murder on an upper floor of an old apartment building when someone started fire to the building. An eyewitness from across the street saw the suspect run out of the building and get into a beat-up, rusted station wagon. Flames shot up inside some of the ground floor windows and the apartment dwellers exited the building. The fire department arrived in time to save the building and found Sara along with several others passed out from smoke inhalation. All of those found were rushed to the hospital, except for an old couple who had died quietly in their sleep from the smoke.
But all of that seemed so inconsequential at the moment, as Sara's closest friends sat in the waiting room of the Desert Palms waiting for the slightest indication, the smallest sign of life…