Despite the other party's polite greetings, Daniel still snapped at him. James, on the other hand, was wise enough to refrain from meeting the lawyer's crossness head-on.
He knew better than starting an argument with a stressed person early in the morning. So instead, he turned around to leave but not before beckoning Daniel
"I don't have time to chitchat with you. I've got work to do. I have to—"
Daniel argued back but before he could even finish what he was about to say, James already cut him off.
"Was he killed here, in the dump? Or was he hunted while running in the dark up through the garbage?"
Gaston who did not know anything next to the case as much as Abby did ask his colleague out of curiosity.
Meanwhile, Abby on the other hand tried to envision the moment when the child fell to the hands of its attacker.