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In the spa Chloe's watching sully get slathered with a honey-treatment. Shirtless Sully. DRINK! There's some banter and the spa attendant places cucumber on Sully's eyes and walks out. Sully's still talking and decides to ask Chloe what Cal has that he doesn't. "A pillow." Cal supplies as we see him shake feathers out all over Sully's honey-drenched body. Sully kinda sits there in shock for a moment as Cal gives his sweetheart a kiss with a "Nicely played love." Snapping out of it, Sully shouts and he jumps up, holding a towel about his private parts. Cal flees. Out in the waiting room, Wellington, Booth, Malcolm and Danny are sitting together when the chase passes right behind them. There is the obligatory pause, and then the obligatory laughing.

I forgive Cal and Chloe a lot for that prank - that was AWESOME.

JD's walking along a forest road with his headphones on. Behind him, a truck pulls in. JD can't hear it but he turns just in time to see it hit him head-on, throwing him up on the hood. He falls to the ground and a pair of ominous legs get out and kick him.

You know, if they hadn't made such a big deal out of Shane's truck with the dead deer last episode that would be so much more suspenseful...

At the Sheriff's office, Abby's arrived to tell her father that she doesn't think Kelly killed herself. He calls her on lying about JD, but states again that it's probably suicide. He does, however follow up with a question about Shane bothering the two of them the day before. Abby snits, yeah, but since he's not investigating, why would he want to talk to Shane?

Which is why we immediately cut next to Shane's place, where he has a coil of rope on his shoulder, and a Sheriff pulling up the drive. The make Kelly's dead small talk. Shane admits to scaring her the day before, but points out they broke up awhile ago and helpfully provides an alibi for the night before. "Seen JD Dunn today?" Nope, Shane says he hasn't, but then they're not exactly that close. The Sheriff tells him to take care and drives off and Shane walks to his truck, opening the back. Not surprisingly, JD's inside. "Did you hear that? The Sheriff thinks you killed Kelly. Know what? I think he's right."

We cut to the pier, where Abby's interrogating, um, talking to Nikki who tells us more about Kelly's obsession with John Wakefield.  We get it. No, really, we do. But Nikki keeps going until she realizes that she she's going on and on about the guy that killed Abby's mom, too. Oops. She stops and Abby floats the theory that maybe Kelly was being stalked, maybe even by Shane who was abusive toward the end of their relationship.

And now it's Extortion Time with your hosts, Hunter and Wellington. In the latter's room the former arrives with a new deal. Since Daddy ratted him out, it will cost him fifty grand to go away, or Hunter will tell Trish the whole thing. Wellington makes no deal, it is Hunter's word against his, after all, and Hunter leaves. But you don't really think he's gone, do you?

Elsewhere, a note is being slipped under Trish's door. It's from Hunter, an invitation to "make this work," and it includes a room number for her to join him in. She looks tempted...or just confused...it's hard to tell.

Even more elsewhere, Abby Drew has hied herself to Shane's place. Needless to say there's no answer at the front door, but she hears a mysterious noise from the shed. She goes to investigate. This should be good.

But I don't get to see it because we cut to Trish walking toward the hotel room of destiny. I note, and not for the first time, that the director is really fond of those long hallway shots. He should really stop watching The Shining, he'll only disappoint himself. (Warning: You Tube clip has blood!)

And we're back with Abby, again, some more, poking around behind the shed where Shane's been skinning the deer he's caught. At least I hope that's what's hanging all over.

Trish is at the hotel room door, reaching out to open it when she sees her engagement ring. (And all I can say is, DAMN Henry, what do you do for a living anyway?) She looks at it for a moment and then walks away. Inside, we can see her feet under the door leave...and so can Henry, who set this up as a test of his fiancee's loyalty. He looks very relieved, I must say.

Abby Drew has finally reached the inside of the shed where JD is strung up and gagged. Sure enough, as soon as Abby realizes what she's seeing, Shane sneaks up behind her. "Looking for me?" We cut to commercial. And the barganing for JD's life begins as soon as we're back with Abby trying to convince Shane that Kelly's death isn't JD's or Shane's fault. But Shane's not having it...until Abby pops up with her "Kelly was murdered" theory. Then he just looks confused. Especially when Abby names John Wakefield as the stalker/murderer, watching Kelly, coming into her house, basically regurgitating everything that Nikki had told her earlier. Shane begins to look convinced, and as Abby continues, the camera cuts to the outside where the Sheriff's sneaking around, listening. And yet, no one's doing anything because the writers prepared this lovely murderous monologue for Elaine Cassidy and we'd hate to cut her off before she's finished.

Well, before she's mostly finished because the Sheriff finally comes bursting in, gun drawn, and orders Shane to drop the knife he's holding. This scares the crap out of Shane so he jumps back, knocking JD off the stool he was standing on in a semi-brilliant bit of slapstick. I'm probably supposed to think, "OMG - he's gonna hang," but mostly I just wait because sure enough Shane and the Sheriff hold him up while Abby picks up the knife and cuts the rope. Everyone stands around breathing hard and we transition out to...

...the fancy dinner party where Henry's supposedly making a toast to Wellington. As Henry watches, Wellington and an associate discuss real estate and Richard's lack of business sense regarding it. Aside from being yet another example of Welling dumping on his son-in-law, it's boring and I'm glad the anonymous associate sees Henry and bows out. In what is a curious re-creation of the scene with Uncle Marty, Henry tells Wellington the following:

1. Wellington's a bully.
2. He knows about Hunter.
3. He won't tell Trish (but he totally could).
4. He's going to marry Trish whether Wellington approves or not.

In other words, busted. Part three.

I would be tempted to cheer except Trish has arrived and either she heard that last bullet point, or she's just reading the tension on Henry's face. Either way, she doesn't look very happy and she leads Henry off as Katherine joins her husband.