It was then, Johnson recalled, that he held up the paper plate.

Heidebrecht said that Johnson could recall neither when he might have drunk from the bottle nor who gave it to him.

Johnson recalled a false alarm last year at a hotel in Toronto.

"Charles picked me up and threw me out of the lane," Johnson recalled.

"He told me don't look at it as a short-term thing," Johnson recalled.

"I was sitting in a zone defense," Johnson recalled.

"When he went down we started to look at each other," recalled Johnson.

"I remember you were a good salesman, that you talked us into a ride on your little bike," Johnson recalled.

"I went to his office over the summer," Johnson recalled, "and he was talking like I might not be able to make it back."