The Great Escape. Trevor had spent the last twenty-four hours with Shannon trying to make sense of what happened. The good news, just like clockwork, Bill had opened his eyes at five the previous evening. Like the doctor had promised, “He just needed time for his body to heal.” He repeatedly told them that. Bill, the stubborn man that he was, tried to leave the hospital to help with the investigation. The doctors decided it was in his best interest to sedate him again, to give his brain a chance to heal. The state of Texas was in shock. Within a twenty-four-hour timespan, one sheriff had been run off the road, and his deputy had been shot twice in the head. Bill had been the luckier of the two, Denise never came out of surgery alive. The question still stood: why would anyone want to kil