Chung-chung! Over at All Due Restraint, a brunette is telling Cassidy and Munch that she knew Layla, but "for obvious reasons, [she tries] to respect the privacy of our customers, because the world can be so judgmental of human behavior." Cassidy leans in with his Sexy Voice and flirts, "Not us -- we leave that to the prosecutors." Anyway, the brunette says that Layla was a first-timer, a "yuppie with a wild streak," and asks why the cops are asking. Cassidy tells her, "We found her dead, trussed up like a latex turkey." Hee hee! The brunette is shocked at this news and, when Munch asks if she knew any of Layla's partners, says she (Layla) came in one time with her boss's girlfriend. Munch: "Big redhead?" Brunette: "No, a brunette. Why?" Munch figures they met a different girlfriend. Cassidy and the sex-shop brunette stare and smile at each other for a while until Munch drags Cassidy out of there. Go, Cassidy!
Chung-chung! At Shaked Diamonds, a fancy jewelry store, the owner has never seen Layla, and tells Benson and Stabler that the only people dealing in quantities of diamonds like she possessed are crooks and professional dealers. What, the cops thought they'd get a few pounds of diamonds at Zales or something? Anyway, the owner would never sell such a large amount to anyone he didn't know personally, for fear of damaging his reputation. Turns out diamonds are "the travelers checks of the underworld -- valuable, compact, impossible to trace." Hey, screw "a diamond is forever"! This is a much better advertising slogan! Anyway, there's a less scrupulous guy named David McKuin upstairs in the same building. He'll apparently sell to anyone.













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