The missing corpse is pulled out of a river, but when Peyton unzips the bag, she gets the shock of her life. He opens his eyes and starts gasping for breath. This is not supposed to happen, but Mac steps in and tells the ambulance crew to get the once-dead-now-alive man to the hospital.
Peyton is now more confused. She was the doctor who pronounced death, and double checked to make sure. A toxicology screen finds anticoagulants in their victim, in massive doses. Mac has an idea about how the ruse could have been pulled off.
He shows Peyton how hibernation can be induced so it looks as though a rat has expired, when all it needs to come back to life is oxygen. This leads him to a genetics teacher, experimenting with the hibernation concept, who compromised his own test.
When the victim was working in his lab, he ingested silver nitrate plus other things to make him collapse into oblivion. The instructor thought he had really perished, and helped dump him into the river. Even though the student survived, this last action is attempted murder. Mac arrests both instructor and his accomplice.
This episode was convoluted, to say the least. Three deaths on the same case? Ouch. However, the theme for both was clearly demonstrated. Life may hand you less than a bouquet of roses, but there is something to be said for making a decision you can live with. As for the ongoing HIV storyline, it is going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Stella finally told her boss what happened, and who knows how many others have heard via office water cooler. Be that as it may, everyone will know for certain once Adam gets started on the test. Mac had to have thought of the implications for a potentially immune-system compromised cop working in a crime lab. Fasten your seat belts, you're going to be headed for a bumpy ride.
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