months, possibly a year to figure out thousand do it. it would cost close to $1 million and there were no guarantees. >> after everybody gave up, we were driving around the belt way and my deputy had are you going to give me a shot. i said what are you going to do? he said i will try to scotch tape them back together. i said that's not going to work. >> his inspiration the adhesive note. first technicians used heat to smooth out the rum med pieces. unfortunately not all of the pieces could be sufficiently repaired so they needed to find a way to replace the damaged pieces to make a complete disk. >> so what we did was then take that original piece of evidence,