Calleigh calls in treasury agent Peter Elliott to look at the money, but it's all business between them after he neglected to tell her he had a fiancée the last time she saw him ( 'Urban Hellraisers'. Delko spots a fat wad of cash in an air conditioning grate, and takes it back to the lab.
Horatio and Tripp demand a list of his employees.ĭelko and Tripp head over to Mariano's apartment, which looks like it's been robbed. While Calleigh ponders where the bullet might have gone, Horatio and Tripp interrogate the hotel owner, Nicholas Suero, who claims he didn't have the funds to hire security to guard the hotel. Alexx examines Garcia's body and determines the brothers were shot three days ago, and the maggots feasting on Mariano's head wound was what kept it clean-and him alive. Ryan joins them at the scene, but not before he tells reporter Erica Sikes, eagerly seeking a story, to back off. Mariano is still alive, and is rushed to the hospital.
Tripp tells Horatio the men are Mariano and Garcia Vargas, and that they were shot execution style. One of the men is alive, and the police rush to the scene.
Tom Jennings and Wayne Leonard, two teen 'urban explorers' who peruse abandoned buildings looking for loot, are shocked to discover two maggot covered bodies in the Delgado hotel.