Here's an image of the victorious Recovery Team taken shortly after their arrival at the Avery complex after recovering the SRC. After this picture was taken, they all had to clean up and prepare for the next phase of the operation, which was to take the SRC apart and remove the sample canister.
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Here is what they looked like after they had tidied up a bit.
The SRC was disassembled in a temporary cleanroom that had been built just for this purpose.
The heatshield and backshell were separated in the UTTR cleanroom.
The sample canister was then removed. It looked as shiny as the day it was built. In addition, the air filter that cleaned the air the entered the SRC during reentry looked nice a clean. This is a good indication that the SRC didn't ingest much in the way of 'smoke' during the ablative reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. (Scott helped test this filter design when the spacecraft was being developed and built.)
Once the SRC was disassembled, everything was packed into boxes and the sample canister was placed in an N2-purged container. Everybody then got some time to rest before preparing to ship the whole lot to NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston.