1986 (#20) - Jill's hospitalization in intensive care unit and the clues against Jack

Shortly after Sven puts the gun back, Jack willing to quickly forget this bad day comes out of his room and heads off. He notices, however, just outside the hotel, that some vagabonds are bothering Gina and so he asks the hotel concierge, Leonard, for help. With Leonard's gun, Jack runs after Gina's attackers and makes them leave before returning the gun to the owner. Michael, meanwhile, returns to his room and finds Jill lying on the floor in the shower in a pool of blood. He immediately alerts the ambulance, which takes Jill to the hospital, where she arrives in critical condition and is taken under observation in intensive care by Dr. Hank Steele. As Jill struggles between life and death, Michael informs the police of what happened and Carl, along with his assistant Salena Wylie, takes control of the investigation. After an argument with Michael about who might want to hurt Jill, suspicions all fall on Jack, who learns from Carl that the weapon used is a 38 caliber, the very one he used to drive away Gina's attackers. Scared that his fingerprints are on Leonard's gun, Jack runs to the hotel and takes the gun away, getting rid of it and throwing it into a lake. Carl soon realizes Leonard's gun is missing and immediately sets out to find Jack, who is no longer being tracked down. Jack, in fact, afraid that he might be accused of attempted murder, is trying to escape from Genoa City by boarding a one-way flight to Tahiti. Intercepted by Salena, this stops him in time and takes him back to the police station where he's interrogated. on charges of attempted murder despite these attempts to explain his reasons. Jack's position, however, becomes increasingly problematic when, a few days later, a cop named Ken Cosny finds the incriminating weapon with the man's prints on it.