When the episode begins we see Al Giardello and John Munch in a public laundry service waiting for their clothes to be clean and discuss about why they have to go there than doing it in their own houses, and then the credits start. Beau Felton and Kay Howard are called to investigate on the murder of Audrey Reznick but since the crime scene it's too disgusting (Reznick's tongue has been cut out, and I saw a similar thing in the recent theater movie SPEAK NO EVIL tho the child was alive in that) Howard snaps and needs some time off Homicide, a chance for returning home for a while. Once at Cheasepeake Bay (near where Crosetti was found dead in the harbor wouldn't you know it) and investigates the murder of a local conservationist, suspecting that a local oysterman might be involved since the conservationist claimed that the oysters were going extinct so it was against the law fishing them and the oysterman finished him off. As Howard arrests the fisherman her brother (a friend of the oysterman) gets angry despite the evidence of the murder.
Since Felton is now alone Giardello assigns Pembleton as his new partner, and remember when in the pilot they were teamed up and didn't work out well? Well, this time they get along just fine (except when they join the basketball game and then they start to bicker making all the boys leave the park) for solving a murder involving a old woman that was killed by her nephew cutting her tongue because she allegedly talked too much.
As I said in previous reviews for other episodes of the show, nice acting and clever script are what makes this show work so far. My minor complaints would be the parts where Howard became angry towards her brother and when Pembleton and Felton bicker after joining the neighborhood kids in the basketball game. But for the rest, another good entry for the show.
