drug-induced coma to save his life. he was unconscious for a month. local law enforcement initially assumed the shooting was a botched robbery, but elizabeth joyal believed otherwise. >> i didn't want to seem like this crazy conspiracy theory woman, but i knew that it was not a carjacking. there's just no way that it was just some random guy. it had to have been a planned attack. >> reporter: because nothing was stolen, and the assailants had clearly been lying in wait. which is why, when joyal came stumbling into the house with a bullet wound, he told his wife to call his business partner, a former russian spymaster. >> and warn him i was shot. >> reporter: so if you're warning your russian business partner that you've been shot, you clearly didn't think this was a botched robbery,