Mitch Clancy is the head of the competitive eating league. He explains Tina Thomas had a big contest scheduled that week -- one that could have netted her $10,000. Later it was discovers evidence of a parasite on the victim's body -- a parasite native to Japan and, Mitch was recently in Japan. Booth brings him in for questioning. Mitch signed a big deal with the Japanese -- one worthless without Tina, who wanted to quit to have a baby. Mitch breaks down. "I shoved her," he says. "I'm a big man and she just flew into that thing." Mitch is arrested.