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Danny is only acting as backup when it comes to this exercise. He's grateful to Chris for doing the requested damage, but there's still a part of him that cringes when he sees the way they've trashed the huts. He sighs and closes the door behind him, signalling to Nick and Kate that this is the one that's set-up the best for their exercise. He's the detective and if he's learned anything from his years on the job, it's that he ought to shut up when the lab shows up because he doesn't know half of what they do.

"Today," he advises to Kate as catches up to them, walking the last little distance, "Nick's your guy. You have a question, you ask him. If it's about the procedure of what happens after, that's me, but what I want you to do is take everything you've read and all that we talked about and go into this scene with an open mind. I want you to pick out the important pieces that might lead you to a suspect or give you a lead. Sound good?"

And maybe he can politely request that someone who owes community service hours can help tidy up the clusterfuck that's become of the huts.

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"I guess don't take anything for granted," she says, lifting one shoulder in a thoughtful shrug. "I mean, even if something looks totally innocuous, that doesn't mean it's not still something important."

She grins and adds, "And don't fuck anything else. Because the lab guys won't like that."

"Look at her, she's all grown up," he dryly comments, wiping away a fake tear as he grins at Kate. "Well, if you two are happy to keep working on this, I'm gonna head to the Compound and find someone who owes about two hundred community hours to clean this up."

"Thanks, Danny," Nick said, surveying the mess one more time. "That reminds me, Kate -- the best part of the job, I almost forgot." It was, sometimes, his favorite part of his work -- aside from solving crimes and helping give closure to grieving families. "You don't have to clean a single part of this up. You come in, you investigate, you collect your evidence, and then you go home. Sure, maybe here on the island we'd probably be a little more helpful about it, I don't know, it doesn't really happen that often. But back where I'm from, at least, traditionally, law enforcement leaves the clean-up to other people."

"Thank god," Kate says, rolling her eyes up toward the ceiling as she laughs. "I'm pretty much the messiest person ever, so asking me to clean this up would've been the worst idea ever."

Which is to say, it wouldn't have gotten clean if that was the idea. Marshall would have been better at it, although he probably wouldn't have liked it very much.

"Well, then, let's hope we do things that way here, too," Nick said, with a smile on his face. He took a few steps back so he was closer to the edges of the mock crime scene.

"I'm gonna stand back and let you get to work, don't want to get in your way. Any questions, just shout them out, hopefully I'll know the answer."