She laughs. "Possibly not as cautious as you'd like."

"Let's start with planets and stars, how about? After that we can see what we feel like."

"A small ambition to start the day. Get us warmed up."

"Gotta pace ourselves."

"Like eating a small breakfast before morning exercises."

"Or stopping a serial killer before going after war criminals."

"Exactly! The steps in front of us, first."

"So what's your theory on his motivation?"

"Killing people is fun? If he's going after just middle aged, middle class women he might have mommy issues, or might just think they're pretty."

"Killing someone because they're pretty doesn't make much sense to me. Unless you're jealous or something."

"I think it makes sense? If they're pretty and you want to see them in pain because you think they'd be prettier then."

"Yeah, I guess. But that adds an extra layer to it."

"Yeah. Dunno how it'd help us find him... Maybe predict future victims, but there's a lot of pretty middle aged women in this city..."

"We'd have to take a closer look at the victims. There might be better common threads. But we should be able to see what he looks like. At some point."

"Yeah. I can talk to Hughes about profiles I guess..."

"There's a lot of pieces to detective work."

"It's a very specialized field, apparently!"

"Guess that's why Hughes gets paid to do it."

"Heh, yeah. Don't think we'll get anything but bragging rights out of this, though."

"We can use the reputation to charge for the next one."

"Become private eyes?"

"As a hobby, maybe."

"It's been pretty fun so far."

"Yeah, but I'm reserving final judgement until it's over."

She makes a happy noise. "You're - good at that."