[ Dirk would do horribly in a court of law. it's just as well he's not really that sort of a detective. it's also just as well he's not the sort of detective who immediately notices every little detail of what anyone around him does and divines usually-correct meaning from it, because John's perfectly content to fall back into the familiar pattern of being charmed by listening to Dirk chat amazingly coherent nonsense without any time assigned to an inquisition. ]
You can buy me drinks, now. So I don't talk to the authorities.
[ about his past as an unscrupulous individual. shocking stuff. ]
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[ Dirk would do horribly in a court of law. it's just as well he's not really that sort of a detective. it's also just as well he's not the sort of detective who immediately notices every little detail of what anyone around him does and divines usually-correct meaning from it, because John's perfectly content to fall back into the familiar pattern of being charmed by listening to Dirk chat amazingly coherent nonsense without any time assigned to an inquisition. ]
You can buy me drinks, now. So I don't talk to the authorities.
[ about his past as an unscrupulous individual. shocking stuff. ]