You know me - I always seek the truth, for each case.

[ but he frowns, brows knitting further. ]

I think it's likely we know what happened to Danny. Vane is the outlier - there is a connection between him and Ponta. If Ponta was killed with the rubber bullet gun, and Vane had the same bruises, then Vane survived it.

So did the person who shot Ponta kill Vane?