Within seconds, Alexx is on the scene and identifying Johnny Decomp at Mark Hubbard, born 1986, courtesy of his Antioch High library card. She then confirms that the body was moved, which suggests that Hank's recently taken his girlfriend to the Keys and done some recreational body-moving on the side. I'm sorry -- I'm never going to get tired of making that joke. Horatio asks Alexx to be pay extra attention to the fingernails during the postmortem. Calleigh's off hunting for bullets when Delko calls her to check out the mausoleum some punks have desecrated. Calleigh notes the high-velocity blood spatter, which suggests a gunshot, and then she notes the projectile. She, Horatio, and Delko reconstruct Mark's awful final moments and realize that there were three people in the mausoleum, not merely the shooter and the victim.
Meanwhile, Speedle's analyzing the pillow and coming up with a facial impression, which confirms that Chuck was smothered with a faceful of down. We quickly cut to Speedle sitting across from Rena in an interrogation room, sliding over a photo and explaining that what she's seeing is Chuck's DNA-confirmed saliva. Rena's all, "And?" and Speedle asks, with the air of a man about to lose his patience, "Did you press his face into the pillow, causing him to suffocate?" Rena pauses so she can think up a new lie, and finally hedges, "Yes, and no." Speedle warns her, and Rena continues, "You're so sure I'm guilty. I could see it when you walked through the door." Speedle's all ears if she's got an explanation to back that yes-or-no thing. She sure does: "Yes, I pressed his face into the pillow. No, I did not suffocate him. He did, however, orgasm." Speedle fidgets uncomfortably before saying, "Excuse me?" Rena sighs and says, "My marathon-running boyfriend was a pillow-biter. Satisfied?" She raises her eyebrows in such a way as to make me suspect that she and Speedle just had a conversation concerning her practice of sodomizing her boyfriend, network-standards-and-practices-style. Wait! We're still having the conversation. Rena continues, "He liked to give himself over to me. I could be more explicit." Speedle hastily assures her that there's no need. Rena estimates that there was some role-playing around 2 AM; then they drank some more and cuddled. Speedle gets up, and Rena's instantly solicitous. He tells her, "It's just that this job...uh, it's weird sometimes. You know, you learn certain things about people." Vin, meanwhile is watching in horror from outside the room, something that nobody misses. Nobody misses the little how-can-you-talk-to-her-without-me conversation that follows either. Speedle then wanders off, presumably to ask Alexx to check Chuck's body again to see if she can verify the suggestion Rena made about pillow-biting.









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