"So. I guess we'll have to do something else."

"I'm a cop. And I try to be a good cop. It kills me to think that Trammel is going to get away with this."

"Can you search a building on the strength of what we've told you? Is that - probable cause, or whatever it's called?"

"Not without the cooperation of the LAPD, which."

"Well. Going to his place by ourselves would be Suicide."

His eyebrows crinkle. "It would, in fact, be Suicide."

"I think we should go regroup with the others. We'll figure out what to do together."

"I can't commit a crime myself. Not one like this. Because I'm a cop, and I still feel like that means something. But if there's anything I can do to help you, let me know. And if you get caught I'll bail you out."

"Thanks Walt. I'm glad there's one apple left in the barrel that isn't rotten."

"Good luck. You're going to need it."

"Thanks." He guesses.

Maybe the mafia would give a shit about people cutting up kids. Does anybody know anybody in the mafia.

They meet up with Oswald and Carrie back at the hotel.

"So, my friend is the one endearingly optimistic and well-meaning cop on the force. And even so all he'll do is bail us out. If, y'know, we get sent to jail. I guess he offered if there was anything he could do to help but like. What."

Oswald shares the information he got. 

"Mordred, don't suppose you know anyone at the LA times we can give a dead-man switch envelope to?"

"I do."

"We might want to write up what we know, and maybe choose a couple photos, and leave them with your contact. As insurance. ...maybe also somewhere less reputable than the LA times, as well. In case they also think Trammel is a pillar of the community."

"Good idea, I'll do that."

"-Do you know what the basement door's lock is like?"

"Normal locks with keys. Mr. Trammel keeps them on his person."

"If we could find a lock of the same make, I could practice on it a bit first. Specific pin heights won't be the same, but I could get used to the tumbler action."

"Well. I volunteer to do stakeout stuff. I figure the best time is probably at night, unless we have some other plan that involves getting noticed and not being obvious burglars, but we can try watching it all day."

"And at least see who all winds up going home or staying, and being obviously on watch, and which rooms are empty?"

"Right. I can't cover it for twenty-four hours, though, we need at least one other person and should possibly be hesitant to leave people watching the place alone."

"I can help. I used to sneak around a lot. In the hospital."