Griffin was in his office catching up on his paper work when there was a knock at his door. It was late, in truth he was avoiding going home. It wasn't the same with Kendall gone and with Ryan around he felt like a spare wheel around the kids.

Griffin looked up to see Jesse standing in the doorway with an old man he didn't recognise peering in through the doorway.

"Dr Castillo?" said Jesse, "I'm sorry to disturb you but this gentleman wants to show me something relating to Bianca and Erica's disappearance and he wanted a doctor present for a second opinion."

"How can I help you?" Griffin asked.

The man had a sheaf of papers in his hand and put them down before shaking Griffin by the hand.

"You have an interest in the autopsy of Erica Kane and Bianca Montgomery?"

"I do." Griffin said slowly. "But hasn't being handled by the local Ma..?"

The old man didn't let him finish.

"If it involves the death of a local resident a copy crosses my desk. I am Dr Van Garrden... I should have said. I was head coroner at Llanview until an unfortunate incident meant my superiors felt it better that I get a transfer and a desk job. It made me a little paranoid and I look at things a lot more closely than I did in the past."

The man pulled an x-ray out of his file.

"Now this… this caught my attention. Tell me what to you see?"

Griffin held the x-ray film up to his desk light.

"It's a leg. You can see the knee joint… severed at the ankle."

"And do you notice anything else unusual about the leg?"

Griffin examined the x-ray a little more closely.

"No. I can see no other abnormality."

"Now read this report." the doctor said.

Griffin pulled up the paper and found the paragraph the doctor was pointing at.

'This limb was found in a left leg brace, serial number 01H67FF8LP. The brace is registered to Bianca Christine Montgomery. Although there was severe predating on the limb by marine wildlife an uncontaminated DNA sample was retrieved from bone marrow of the femur. The DNA was a 98% match to Bianca Christine Montgomery.'

Griffin looked at the x-ray again.

"Are you saying this is Bianca's leg."

The old man shook his head.

"What are they teaching young doctors these days." he muttered. "You examined the x-ray..? You read the report..? You had a good look at the knee joint..?"

Griffin stared at him blankly.

"Then tell what a right leg doing on a left leg brace?"

Griffin blinked.

"The x-ray is reversed."

The doctor shook his head.

"No it isn't. According to the finding of this very sloppy autopsy Bianca Montgomery has two right legs, this X-ray here and a foot still attached to a femur, both convincingly matching her DNA. And even more incredibly Erica Kane had two left legs, now I've seen pictures of Erica Kane and I must admit that's not something I noticed."

"What you saying?" Jesse asked.

"I am saying that someone wants you to believe these bodies belong to Erica Kane and Bianca Montgomery but they have tried to be a little too clever and they balls it up."

"But could this just be cross contamination or a muddle up with the lad results?" Jesse asked.

Griffin was reading through more of the paperwork.

"The DNA testing is very well documented at every stage."

Dr Van Garrden nodded.

"They didn't want any doubt in the identity of the bodies, which makes me suspect that this is a lie and Erica Kane and her daughter are still alive somewhere."

"We need to alert the authorities." said Jesse.

"Wait." said Griffin. "This kind of tampering with evidence requires a lot of money and influence. Yeah, Bianca and Erica may not be dead yet, but how long until whoever took them decides they are too dangerous to keep alive. If you make this known we could be putting their lives in danger."

"Look I know I had my suspicions but why go to all this trouble?" Jesse asked. "Fake their deaths? The only reason to hold Bianca and Erica is for the ransom money. No one is going to ask for a ransom of two dead people."

"Like I said before;" said Griffin with a knowing smile, "This is all because of Orpheus! That is where the money is! We find whoever is behind this new Lazarus drug, we find Bianca, Erica and possibly David too..."

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