I'll be out of town for most of this week. I wanted to give you something before I go, especially as the next chapter is going to take awhile. If you hate cliffhangers, please complain loudly in the comment section. ;)

Jo was able to pull Adam's prints from the trigger of Henry's revolver. Now what to do with them? It wasn't enough to simply have them; she had to be able to show the courts where she got them from and how she came by it. Under the circumstances that wasn't possible, but maybe it wouldn't be necessary. She dug through the records of both of the pugio murder scenes and found partials that matched Adam's print and had Mike run them. His results surprised her.

"He was what?"

"He's the shrink Henry was ordered to see after he shot his stalker - well we thought he was his stalker at the time. How'd he manage to get hired I don't know. His prints also match partials found at other murder scenes - and get this, he's got a sheet for public nudity. Seems our shrink likes to go skinny dipping." Mike was thoughtful a moment, "You don't think there's something to this immortality thing, do you? That book's got to be a forgery, right?" Mike didn't sound as certain as he had back at Griffin's place.

"I think he's a murder suspect, and I think he could be Henry's stalker. The rest is irrelevant right now."

Mike nodded, then handed her an address. "That's the hospital where he's at right now. Some kind of brain aneurism. The tech, Dinah recognized the sketch Griffin gave us. The IA guys had her pouring over subway tapes all morning and she saw this guy collapse." Mike looked at Jo. "Is there anything you're not telling me?"

"Yes, for your own good," or her own, she wasn't sure anymore.

"Ok." Mike said, not liking it but unable to argue. "Let's go. Maybe this guy had something on him that will make sense of this case."

Jo doubted that very much.

Adam's room was filled with hospital staff performing some kind of emergency procedure. The only thing Jo understood was that some of the monitors he was hooked up to were beeping stridently.

"Ok," the one in charge said, "call it. Time of death 2:45pm." He then ordered a nurse to unhook life support.

"No!" Jo shouted, but too late, the nurse flicked a switch and Adam disappeared in a flash of light.

"Well." Mike spoke at her shoulder, "I'm a believer."

Jo hadn't realized until just that moment that she was too.