When he had finished, he did not drop the empty glass containers into the medical waste bin the way every honest nurse and doctor I had ever worked beside always did.

He gathered them up, carefully, every one, and sealed them away inside his own briefcase, and carried them out of the house.

People do not hide their trash unless the trash is evidence.

I had worked around medicine and the sick for long enough to know the ordinary rhythms of it, the way things are done when they are done honestly.

Used vials go in the proper container, in plain sight, so that anyone can account for what was given.