"Do you know what those are commonly prescribed for?"

"According to the lab, they're for seizures."

He nodded. "Has your wife been having seizures?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen one, but if Alexa was taking this stuff, maybe. She stopped driving her car last week. She gets picked up and brought home by a department driver now. I was hoping she'd tell me on her own what's going on. So far she hasn't."

"Your wife was abducted last July and suffered a gunshot wound to the head resulting in a severe traumatic brain injury. That was less than eleven months ago. TBI seizures often crop up months afterward and can continue for years. And you say she's already back at work?"

"She had a lot of stuff pending. It's a big job. She supervises two hundred people."

"Chief of the Detective's Bureau at the LAPD."

"Yes."

"Pretty high stress."

"Yep."

"Who, if I might ask, approved her to return to duty?"

"Alexa went through a battery of physical and psychiatric tests at the Police Academy a month ago. She went to the union.

They took up her case and she requalified and was marked fit for duty."

"But you don't think she is."

I wasn't about to answer that one.

We sat back and looked at each other. Dr. Lusk slouched in the heavy chair, his huge gut pushing up on his diaphragm, causing him difficulty breathing. His slick complexion shone white as a fish belly. I wondered why I booked this damn appointment and drove all the way over here.

"I'm not a neurologist, Detective Scully, I'm a psychologist. But I have studied the brain. According to what you told me, your wife Alexa's TBI affected the frontal and temporal lobes. We generally associate behavioral disorders with injuries to the frontal lobe. That's the emotional and personality control center. Damage in that area can diminish judgment. It can also cause trouble with concentration and thought organization. Sometimes it leads to an array of more serious behavioral problems such as inappropriate statements, or impulsive or inappropriate actions: social as well as sexual."