He tries opening the door again. 

Just a hallway.

"He came in, and after you closed the door, that was it? Back to the sheriff's station?"

"Yes."

"It could depend on the person...you try, imagining the room you saw. If we can find out where we came from, that should give us a clue to everything else." 

She unhugs and tries to open the door.

The hallway, again.

They should really stop expecting anything else.

Poor hallway. 

"Okay, sure. Maybe you have to do something special?"

He closes his eyes, and after a moment, reaches for the door again.

Nooope.

"I'm going to try tracking down his boss, and other people who might know something. You guys look around, see if you notice anything weird. Where should we meet up?"

Kaede wipes her eyes and peers.

"Aren't I, like, under arrest or something?"

"Not if your mom posts bail? I mean, you've got a court date, but you can leave until then. And they'll let you off if she doesn't sue, you're a minor." 

"Shouldn't we wait for the sheriff for that, then?"

"And more importantly, going after a dangerous gang who might have been involved in shooting a kid is, not to put too fine a point on it, dangerous."

"I'm not 'going after' them, just investigating. And you can stay here, check out the door and the room for anything weird." 

"I am not your parent so I have very little say in what you do, but this course of action sounds inadvisable."

"You should probably at least have a plan before. And perhaps tell your father you're gonna do it."

"It can wait a day, just please don't cry again. Okay, you don't need the sheriff to post bail, the deputy can do it. I'll have her help you get out." 

She furrows her eyebrows, but doesn't say anything.

Yeong sighs and tugs on Kaede's hand to be led to the deputy.

The deputy has the authority to accept bail, because that is the nature of small town bureaucracy. 

Bail: is paid.

What now?

Besides being responsible to bring her daughter in for her hearing? Not much.

They can go home.

But they don't.

"What are you planning to do?" she asks the boy. "...I'm Kaede, by the way, and this is my mom Yeong."

"Visit the pawn shop where the kid worked, try to figure out how to appeal to Ms. Argent's forgiving, gooey center..."