"Nice try. So, you read the M.E. report?"
"Sure, the defense has access to it."
"You know I can't discuss it, even if I did trust you, which I don't. We are legal adversaries remember?"
"The prosecution must eventually disclose their evidence to the defense anyway."
"Not all of it. There are always things we don't disclose about evidence, alternative suspects and theories. Anyway, it's not for the investigating detective to decide. Obviously, I must keep my mouth shut. Sorry, I can't discuss the murder scene."
"Then just listen."
"Sandy, I don't have time for your games. I know what you're up to. You're going to spout off a bunch of theories while you watch my face. Any time I blink or clear my throat you're going to say, gotcha."
"No, I was just going to explain why I think you're making a wrong assumption. I doubt there was sex in that apartment that day in spite of how it looked in the bedroom. I could be more certain, if I knew about the blood spatter."
"Did Elena tell you no sex?"
"No, Linda told me about the bedding on the floor. Would you care for a woman's point of view?"
He shook his head.
"Well you're getting it anyway. I think the murderer staged the messy bedroom after Towson was shot. Otherwise, we're supposed to believe that after sex, the woman gets dressed and leaves, and he didn't get dressed. I don't think so. Remember, he was expecting Tony Hackett later. A king bed has a hellava lot of bedding, and they left it on the floor? I don't think so. If you don't want to make the bed then at least pile everything back up on the bed and stop stepping around it. I'm ruling out afternoon sex."
"If no sex, then how do you explain the wine glasses?" Chip asked.
She blinked hard. Wine glasses. What wine glasses? Obviously, the detective had slipped up. She faked it, "You mean in the bedroom?"
He nodded.
She had no idea what he was talking about. "I'm still working on my wine glass theory." She thought that sounded pretty good.
He went on, "What if he was shot before he had a chance to pick up the bedding?"
"Then there would be blood spatter on the bedding. If there's no blood spatter then the bed was made up, and the killer pulled the bedding to the floor."
"Can't comment. I can tell you it's a big bedroom, and the shooting wasn't that close to the bed."
"There's always microscopic blood spatter. Another thing, was his robe nearby? I mean was it away from the body, on a hook in the bathroom or something? Or was it found near his body?"