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Mr. Hudson was sitting in the interrogation room all alone for almost half an hour now. He looked impatient but not very nervous when Brass, Russell and Nick walked in.

"Finally! Would someone please tell me what's going on?"

"Mr. Hudson, do you know this woman?" Brass handed her a picture of Simone.

Hudson looked at it. "I don't know, I don't think so. I already told you, I didn't see their faces."

"What is he talking about?" Nick asked annoyed.

"The murder in Henderson. I saw three people walk out of the house after I heard the screams, but I didn't see any faces."

"...This isn't about the murder."

"Then what's this about?"

Brass didn't like Nick's approach in this situation. "How about him?" He handed Hudson a picture of Chuck.

"No, sorry. I wish I could help you."

"What were you doing last Wednesday?" Nick chimed in again.

"...Excuse me?" Hudson raised an eyebrow.

"Last Wednesday afternoon! Where were you?" The CSI was starting to get aggressive.

Hudson sighed annoyed. "I was at the movies with a friend." He got a movie ticket out of his wallet and put it on the table. "Shitty seats but it was a good movie."

Russell leaned in to Nick to whisper to him. "The movie started at 4 p.m., they were already in the apartment at that time."

"Look, I'll gladly tell you everything I've seen today, maybe it'll help you. But it's late, I'm tired and I want to go home. So if there's nothing else you need from me..."

"Just hold on a minute." Nick gave him an angry look. "We'll have to talk to the friend you went to the movies with."

Russell, Nick and Brass discussed what just happened in the interrogation room while they waited for Hudson's friend to arrive. "Look, if he's guilty he's probably the most relaxed perp I've ever seen. He doesn't seem to be scared or nervous that we're onto him at all," Brass explained.

"So what? Greg was simply wrong?" Nick rolled his eyes frustrated.

"You thought so when he suspected Chuck."

Nick gave Brass a look. "I didn't really mean it and you know it. Greg seemed so sure with Hudson."

"But victims see their attackers in the wrong people all the time..."

"Yeah but not Greg. He's a CSI, he knows how dangerous it is to accuse someone without being sure."

"It's not that I think Greg was careless with his identification. I'm sure he is sure now. It's real for him, whether or not it's true."

"Great..." Nick rubbed his forehead. "So that's what we're going to tell him?"

"Let's just wait and see if his alibi checks out."

Hudson's friend confirmed his alibi. They had nothing except Greg's word to rely on, so they weren't able to do much background checking on Hudson. Even if they would be able to do so, they wouldn't find much. Hudson was very much guilty – he did beat up Greg – but didn't leave much trace behind. He never met Simone and only knew Chuck through a friend. And the way he behaved in the police station gave them no reason to believe he was actually guilty.

"Greg, I'm afraid I have some bad news..." Nick volunteered to break the news to Greg. They both sat down in the break room. "It looks like Hudson is innocent."

"...So you're saying this guy isn't the one who beat me up?"

"He has an alibi and was acting very cool as we interrogated him."

"What kind of an alibi? Do you got him on film somewhere?"

"No, but he was with a friend at the time."

"And how do you know his friend's not lying for him?"

"He didn't give us that impression."

"...So that's all it takes these days?"

"Greg, what do you want me to say? Until we get some hard evidence we have to consider this guy not guilty."

"But I know it's him!"

"But it looks like it isn't."

"Nick, I've seen his face long enough to know what he looks like. It's him."

"But they hit you on the head and the eye. Your sight might've been impaired."

"No it wasn't. I was seeing clearly, why can't you believe me?"

"It's not that I think you're lying, Greg..."

"No. It's just that this gives you perfect opportunity to question Simone's involvement, right? I was wrong once, might as well be wrong with Chuck's sketch."

"That's not what this is about."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course! Greg, do you think I want him to go free if he did it? We simply don't have any evidence to hold him. They're gonna have to let him walk. Believing he's innocent helps me feel better about this."

Greg shook his head rather desperate. "Well at least one of us feels good about this."

Greg wasn't totally wrong with what he said about Nick. He did feel that if Greg was wrong with Hudson, he could've been wrong with Chuck, too, although the interrogation told otherwise. It was a very confusing time for Nick. He decided to talk to Simone about Hudson, hoping to get some clarity out of it. Things only got more confusing for him, though.

Greg knew that Nick went to talk to Simone about it although he asked him not to. Nick was in a very emotionally unstable state lately so Greg was worried that things could go out of hand and that Nick and Simone would end up fighting. His mind started wandering off, playing several scenarios of what they were doing right now. He had no idea how far off he really was. He was sitting in the DNA lab, waiting for Robin to come back from her break when his cell phone rang. "Nick, where are you?"

"Turn your head to the right."

"...Why are we talking over the phone when you're in the lab?" Greg asked, looking outside the DNA lab to find Nick standing there waving.

"You'll see in a moment." Greg was about to get off his seat. "Don't get up! Just listen."

"...Okay." Greg had a wary smile on his face.

"I just come back from Simone's."

"You've been away for almost four hours. I was worried, why didn't you call or text me or something?"

"I was busy. I'm sorry."

"So how'd it go?"

"Well, we talked a lot... She still claims she didn't have anything to do with the beating and she wanted me to tell you she's sorry for yelling at you the other day."

"Uh-huh. Anything significant that happened, too?" Greg asked unimpressed. An apology from a person like her didn't mean anything to him anymore.

"Okay, here it goes... Talking wasn't all we did, you know?"

"She didn't attack you or anything, did she?"

Nick couldn't help but chuckle in desperation. Greg didn't make this any easier for him. "No. No... It was all very... civilised, I guess. I can't really explain to you how... it happened... or why but... We kind of had... you know... a physical... encounter..."

Greg was silent on the other end of the line, but it was clearly visible his face impression slowly changed while Nick told him he had sex with Simone.

"Before you say anything... Let me just tell you that I didn't plan it and... That I'm sorry and..." Nick watched Greg approach the door, so he decided to walk away. "...I know that there's nothing that can make my actions undone and I feel both sad and ashamed and..." He started gaining speed. "And I hope you're mature enough to accept my apology and won't hate me for the rest of my life for it!" Nick put his cell phone away and ran down the stairs to pathology in an attempt to hide from his friend.