Joseph Scott Morgan

I mean, let me ask you this, my friends.

How many times have you taken a garbage bag?

And I know you're thinking, I'm going to pop it like this.

I'm going to get it open, OK?

guess what you do that you don't think about?

You readjust your hands many times and put them on the inside of the bag.

Well, that's a point of contact.

And guess what else?

If you like that one, I got another one for you.

You leave behind latent prints.

And particularly in this day and age, you leave behind DNA deposition as well, just by touching the inside.

So if you're

If you're going to cowboy it up as an investigator and go in there and you begin to at the scene and you begin to manipulate the bag in some way, you know, you pull out your your buck knife that you got on the side or your spotter knife out of your pocket.

You flick it open dramatically and you begin to slice open the bag like you're in some episode of some ridiculous television show.

Well, it's not controlled.

You have got to maintain control.

And that's why you cannot go into this haphazardly.

You don't want to cut through the tape.

You don't want to dislodge any of the bungee cords.

And sometimes, you know, bungee cords fail.