Sloth Chapter 3

Horatio and Frank picked up Byron Jenkins at his home and before they went in to talk to him. One of the officers mentioned that he had attacked them as they picked him up. Two officers ended up in the hospital. Horatio and Frank walked into the room and Mr. Jenkins stood up.

"I didn't do anything," he said immediately.

"Calm down, we haven't accused you of anything yet." said Frank.

"You attacked two of my officers when they went to pick you up," said Horatio. "They are both getting checked out at the hospital. Why would you do that?"

"I don't belong here, I have things to do, and I don't have time for this." he said standing up.

"Sit down," said Frank. "Your not going anywhere."

"I won't let you do this," he yelled. "I'm a citizen of Miamia and I have rights."

"We haven't even asked you about the death of your friend yet." said Frank. "And if you turned out to be the one who killed him, you can kiss your rights goodbye."

"It was his fault he died," said Byron. "We were supposed to go out today for our annual guys day out, but he was too tired. All he ever did is sit on that couch and watch tv. Thats no way to live."

"So you killed him?" Frank asked.

"He didn't deserve the life he had," Byron replied. "He had a beautiful wife, a good job, and great friends. He took it all for granted. I did him a favor. He was just going to die on that couch anyway."

"Why didn't your buddy fight back?" Frank asked.

"Please he could barely stand up long enough to answer the door." said Byron. "He was a lazy bum and he deserved to die."

"Take him." said Horatio, to the officer standing next to the door.

"I don't think so," said Byron, punching the cop who was coming toward him. Frank ran up behind him and just dodged another punch. Frank tackled him to the ground and cuffed him as the other officer got up off the ground with a bloody nose. Byron fought against the cop as he was being escorted out of the room. It took three cops to get him down to booking and he fought the whole way.

"Somethings wrong here Horatio," said Frank after he was gone.

"I agree," Horatio replied. "This doesn't make any sense."

"Yeah, he kills his friend because he was too tired to hang out with him," said Frank. "He doesn't even seem sorry or even understand that what he did was wrong."

"Lets see if Ryan, Jesse, and Calleigh have found anything that may give us a clue to how all of this started," said Horatio leaving the room with Frank.

Horatio walked into the lab where Calleigh and Ryan were looking over some of their items from the couch area. It looked as if candy wrappers and soda cans were covering the entire desk.

"Did you find anything?" Horatio asked.

"Only wrappers from about every type of snack food you could think of," said Ryan. "It's almost like this guy lived on snack food."

"Our vic's friend confessed to the murder," said Horatio.

"What? This fast?" Calleigh asked.

"Yes, but there is something else going on," said Frank. "Our killer says that he killed his friend because he was too tired to hang out. Not to mention that he tried to take a few more cops out on his way to booking."

"This doesn't make any sense," said Ryan.

"Thats what I am thinking," said Horatio. "It feels like there is something bigger going on here, but we just haven't found it yet."

"Yeah," said Calleigh. "But nothing here seems to tell us what that is."

"Hey," said Jesse walking into the room yawning. "Tom processed the body, and our vic had no drugs in his system, no physical problems other than what happened when he was beaten." He yawned again.

"Are you alright, Jesse?" Horatio asked.

"I'm fine," he said. "Just a little tired."