Matt and C.J. sat on the couch and pulled up the files Chris had been working on. C.J. clicked some buttons and pulled up a picture of the defendant Ricardo Gonzales. "Ok, Matt, so my client is Ricardo Gonzales. Baby doesn't have much more information than Bob did. He doesn't appear to have a social security number and could very well be an illegal immigrant. I talked to Bob a few minutes ago and he is still researching. He said Ricardo was told by the man who hired him that he would take care of it."

Matt nodded, "Let me guess, Ricardo took his word for it and probably doesn't remember signing any papers or going to any courthouse to swear in as a citizen."

C.J. nodded and said, "You got it and because he doesn't speak English, he wasn't sure who to talk to and ask. Bob thinks that may be why Ricardo won't talk to him much either. We don't know where he's from originally who his parents are, or really if this is even his name."

Matt shook his head, "That's going to make it much harder to defend him, isn't it."

She nodded her head, "Yes, yes it is. There's something else though Matt….I get the feeling he's scared. When I looked through all the notes Bob kept between him and Ricardo, he seems to just shut down when asked certain questions."

Matt looked at her, "Like what type of questions?"

She turned to face him, "Like anything about his boss or where he's from. I know Bob and that man can get information out of about anybody. I've seen him more than once get a witness to practically confess to the crime his client was charged with on the stand. There's something else going on here, I just don't know what."

Matt looked her in the eye and asked, "Do you think it's because he's done this before and he's guilty?"

She thought about that for a second while Matt kept his eyes on her. "I don't know…my gut is telling me that's not it though…I just don't know what to tell you…I just don't think it's that….I think he's scared, truly scared of something." She answered.

She looked back up at him and he rubbed her back and asked, "Well, we do have a couple of other suspects, right?"

C.J. then pulled up the next image Chris saved. "This is Stephen Telso, Ricardo's boss. He manages a winery specializing in the best strawberry wine in southern California. It appears he was investigated once before for hiring and not paying illegal immigrants and there was an allegation of sexual harassment by one of the women under his employ. There was only one police report that was filed and it doesn't appear it was investigated, so the case just died before it even got started."

Matt looked confused, "What happened? Is there an explanation as to why they didn't investigate?"

C.J. looked back at Bob's notes, "Well, Bob didn't find one, let's see what Chris found." She pushed more buttons and a newspaper article from 5 years ago appeared, Local Grower Released After Accuser Flees. Matt and C.J. looked at each other and read this small town newspaper report on the accusation against Telso. Apparently a woman, whose name was not released accused Telso of attacking her and trying to rape her. She had only arrived that day from out of town, it was reported and she was supposed to be meeting with her family to work at the farm. She claimed Mr. Telso met her at the edge of the farm and tried to drag her into the wine storage facility underground. She claimed there was a secret room hidden in the cave-like structure. She said she got away from him by fighting back and since he still suffered some effects from contracting polio as a child, she was able to get away.

Telso had argued that his condition made it impossible for him to have committed such an act and the next week, when the local D.A. went to find her so they could get a deposition to get an arrest warrant, she had fled. The paper theorized that she fled because her illegal status would be discovered and that she had either migrated somewhere else in the U.S. or had gone back home. Either way, the reporter claimed, the reputation of this upstanding member of society should be restored now as he was clearly innocent.

Both Matt and C.J. shook their heads, just because he wasn't investigated didn't mean he was innocent. Matt broke the silence, "The man has all that land, he could build whatever he wanted on that property and no one would know. He's got a workforce that has a language barrier making it more difficult for them to get help if they need it." He shook his head.

C.J. shook hers too, "He's exploiting them and there's not much we can do about it. You're right, he's got all that land. We would need someone to come forward to give the police probable cause." They just looked at each other for a minute.

C.J. then clicked more buttons and pulled up another image, "This is Peter Denton, he's the owner of the club Sheryl Marx was signing in the night she was assaulted. Its called Starfire Night Club. He has a record of domestic violence. In fact, his wife called the police on him 12 times before leaving him last year. The last time he raped her and almost killed her."

Matt shook his head again, "I never understood that. You remember the Farley Ward pick pocket case? I knew Nora a long time. I knew she was drinking again, and I knew Mickey Logan was abusing her. Why she kept going back, I never understood. At least this guy's wife got away."

C.J. looked over at Matt and said, "I can't imagine. Loving someone and then having them hurt you physically like that." She put her arm around him and he took her in both of his. Going through all these files and evidence was taking an emotional toll on her and he knew it. He knew she could actually imagine it, she had loved Robert Tyler and he did try to take her life.

"Why don't we stop here tonight and start on this tomorrow morning, huh?" he asked as he kissed her forehead.

She smiled a little and told him, "No I want to keep going. If Ricardo is innocent, then that means there is someone out there who could be stalking their next victim. We need to get this person off the street as soon as we can."

Matt nodded his head and asked what she thought about Denton as a suspect. She replied, "Well, if you remember Bannon County, the bartender at that dirty bar I found myself in was working with Sheriff Butz. I think that makes Denton a viable suspect." Matt agreed and slipped his arm back around her waist.

The mention of Bannon County took Matt for a split second to seeing C.J. in that jail cell, dressed only in a bikini and knowing that the Sheriff and these crooked politicians were going to take advantage of her. His fear was that they had already before he got there. He knew she had to have been injured after seeing what was left of her car in that gas station and it disgusted him that she needed someone's help and the very people that should help her, turned out to be her captors. When he saw the tape later of C.J. struggling against Butz that the state police uncovered hidden in his office, it took every ounce of energy for him to stay in his seat and not hop right over the railing in the courtroom and deliver another severe beating to the corrupt sheriff. The man not only abused the women in his jail, but kept a hidden camera so he could watch their 'orientation' later, and his best friend had been one of them.

C.J. clicked more buttons, "This is Kyle Smith, he was the one who called in the attack and got police to the bar. Neither Baby nor Bob have much unusual on him other than some sealed investigation of him when he was a freshman in college at Pepperdine two years ago, but he was the only witness. Bob said something earlier about having a hard time tracking him down." She looked back at the file Chris put together and saw where Chris had notated in red ink, deposit. After clicking several more buttons, C.J. pulled up a financial statement for Smith and found that he made a rather large deposit in his bank account, $20,000 one week ago. "Matt, Chris found that Smith came into this large sum of money last week. I wonder if that means he's left or is going to recant his statement….I wonder where he got the money?"

C.J. put her head in her hands for a second and then looked up at Matt who was watching her closely and looking a little concerned. "You know if the prosecutor finds this and then they can't find Smith, they will claim Bob paid him to leave." She put her head back in her hands.

Matt had gone over the evidence box and basically everything in it pointed to Ricardo as the culprit. Sheryl Marx's dress was the most damaging though. It had Ricardo's fingerprints and a few drops of his blood on it. On top of all that, there was a stain from her rum and coke that also had clonazepam, a date rape drug. The glass she last drank out of also had Ricardo's prints on it. And finally, a small vile that had a few drops still of clonazepam was found in a dumpster near where the attack took place that also had his prints.

Matt rubbed her back again and said softly, "Come on, let's go get some dinner. You need a break." She looked up and agreed this time. He took her by the hand and they went back to the beach house where Matt grilled steaks and she made a nice salad. He opened a bottle of wine and the two sat back and relaxed. That night they just held each other. Matt knew his wife and knew what she needed from him and tonight it was just his arms around her. He had massaged her shoulders, her neck and then took her hand and rubbed in a way that always made her relax and then he watched her as she drifted off to sleep.