Cut to the outside of a hotel door. Hotel security runs a key card through, and Benson and Stabler bust in, guns drawn, and announce their presence. They stop in their tracks when they see Tucker sitting down to a fancy room service dinner, in a fancy hotel robe.

After the commercials, Stabler and Benson are interrogating Tucker. Tucker doesn't know where Martin is, and he got a hotel room with two beds because that way there's a better chance of getting a decent mattress. Benson tells him, "Layla's death is at your feet unless we get Frank. It's not a pretty life, Tucker. It's dark all the time." "And the mattresses suck," adds Stabler. Tucker relents and tells them that Martin left an hour before they got to the hotel, but Tucker doesn't know where Martin went. Benson asks what happened the night Layla died. He says he doesn't know. She insists that he does. "No, not specifics," he admits. "He called me after. By the time I got there, he already had her strung up." Stabler asks what Martin said when he called. Tucker says he just told Tucker to get over to Layla's, but Tucker didn't need directions because he'd already been there. "Layla was one of the best. That's what I was expecting." Benson's skeeved: "Wait. You expected to have sex with Layla with Frank there?" "Frank helped her do things, do things right. That's how he got me the first time." Ew, ew, ew. "The first time" was the same time as the audit. Tucker says Frank gave him a taste of life he'd never had before -- beautiful women who wanted him, which made him feel powerful. Stabler has no sympathy for this bastard as he pleadingly explains that he's shy around women. Benson doesn't give a shit; she wants to know about money. Tucker got cash, cars, and free time. He'd go home to a dull life, but Layla was anything but dull. Stabler asks what happened when he got to Layla's apartment. Tucker says that he saw that she was dead, and "hightailed it outta theah." I swear to god, that's what he says. Benson asks why he didn't leave town, and he admits that there was some hush money -- the diamonds. Benson tells him that the cops have the jewels, and Tucker is crushed. He tells them that Martin didn't have a cent on him when he left, and that he hated being without money because it reminded him of when he was growing up. Tucker thinks that Martin would turn to Amy, because he trusts her.