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Season 4, episode 14
"Survivors"

"DAMN." BUCK SAID AS HE, Chim and Rylin entered the station. "You're early."

"Couldn't sleep." Eddie replied. "What are you doing here?"

"Can't tell if you sound happy about my presence or not." Rylin joked before answering him. "I may not be cleared for work just yet, but that doesn't mean I can't say hi to you guys."

"So you're bored?" Eddie asked.

"Oh, you have no idea." Rylin groaned. "So why can't you sleep?"

"The mom we helped the other day, Sheila," Eddie started.

"With the sick kid?" Buck asked.

"Yeah."

"He's not sick." Eddie said. "Not really. She's making him sick. Probably for years."

"Munchausen by proxy?" Chim asked. "That's a big accusation, Eddie."

"I tracked down some people that knew them before." Eddie said. "All signs point to it. The nonspecific autoimmune disease, the revolving door of doctors. He's frail, he's weak, he's always throwing up. She's posioning him."

"Posioning him?" Buck asked.

"With what?" Rylin asked.

Eddie though for a moment. "Eye drops." he said. "I saw them in the kitchen."

"Eye drops." Chim gasped. "Tetrahydrozoline could cause the symptoms that you're talking about. It fan be lethal if it's ingested, doesn't just show up on a standard toxicology test. You have to know to look for it to find it."

"She's dosing him." Eddie said. "Not enough to kill him but enough to keep him sick. I called social services. They're coming here to take a report."

"Why would she do that?" Buck asked.

"Money, I'm guessing." Rylin assumed.

"Or to gain sympathy." Chim added.

"No, Rylin's right." Eddie said. "She's probably doing this to make a profit. I found multiple Fund Me pages." he continued. "She's conning people out of their money."

"Hello?" he asked once he answered his ringing phone."

"Charlie? You okay?"

"Ryles, stay here, okay?" Buck asked once everyone pulled up to the boy's apartment. She nodded knowing she'd only be in the way if she went up with them.

"Should've gotten here sooner." Eddie said once both Charlie and his mom were put into two separate ambulances.

"That kid is just lucky he met you." Buck said.

"And that you stayed up all night trying to figure out what happened." Rylin added. "Which you did."

"Diaz, you want to ride with the kid to the hospital?" Mehta asked.