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he did. Howard said he forgot to bring the money. Howard then said goodbye and walked back to the car. "He definitely wasn't running or rushing to his car," the handyman said. "Just going through the paces, it seemed." It's approximately a three to four minute walk to where his car was parked from where the boat was docked. About ten minutes after the phone call, the handyman says the Town Car pulled out of the parking lot. In retrospect now knowing what Howard was told on the phone, the handyman described Howard's behavior as "extremely odd."

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    According to police records and hotel surveillance footage:
       At 1:38 p.m., Tas was exhausted from her efforts and frustrated that help hadn't arrived. She called the hotel operator and said Anna Nicole was unconscious and needed emergency assistance immediately.
       Within minutes, hotel security personnel were in the room. The Hard Rock Hotel is in the city of Hollywood, but it's actually located on tribal land, owned by the Seminole Indians, who have jurisdiction over all activities on their property. They are considered a sovereign nation on sovereign land, and only federal agents who work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs have authority on that land. Although Hollywood authorities assisted in the case, Seminole officials controlled the investigation and determined what information came in or out.
       At 1:40 p.m., Hard Rock security called the Seminole Police Dispatch, and the Seminole Police called Seminole Rescue teams and Hollywood Fire and Rescue: "Hi, this is the Seminole Police," a female said on the recording of the 911 call. "If you could please respond to the Hard Rock, room 607. It is going to be in reference to a white female who is—what is she not responsive? —She is not breathing and she is not responsive. She is actually Anna Nicole Smith. . . ."
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    Though Moe told police he was in the room and instructed his wife to call 911, eyewitnesses say that Moe arrived at the hotel and broke into a sprint across the hotel lobby, yelling toward the front desk to "Call 911!" According to surveillance tapes, he arrived in the room at 1:40, after the call for help had already finally been initiated.
       When he arrived in the room, his wife was on top of Anna, continuing her unfruitful attempts to revive her. He moved her out of the way and felt for a pulse. He later said he might have felt a faint pulse. His first reaction was to pick Anna up and put her on the floor so he could properly do CPR on her. "When I had my lips around her lips, blowing," Moe said in an interview with Larry King, "blowing, breathing life, breathing air in her, and it blew back, I just . . . deep down . . . I just figured that she was going to, you know, see her son Daniel."
       1:44 p.m. Seminole Police were on the scene.
       1:47 p.m. Both Seminole Rescue and Hollywood Fire and Rescue arrived in the hotel room. They took over administering CPR and began ACLS protocol (Advance Cardiac Life Support), which included medications such as atropine (to try to jumpstart her heart), Narcan (a reversing agent in case she overdosed on narcotics), and they intubated her by inserting a breathing tube into her lungs and blowing oxygen directly into her lungs, but the air immediately blew right back out.
       Later that day, Captain Dan Fitzgerald with the Hollywood Fire and Rescue Department would say, "There was just no way of knowing how long she'd been down before she was discovered, which could make all the difference in the world. If you witness somebody pass out, you can initiate care immediately. But if somebody passes out and it's not witnessed, they can be there for twenty minutes or so before they're found, it makes it a much more difficult scenario to work our protocols and be successful."
       At 1:51 p.m., Howard K. Stern burst into the room, but was stopped by security personnel. According to King Eric, he had been stoic and quiet on the