"My friends distracted the police long enough for me to find it." When they're basically a step up from Keystone Kops, it's not that hard to get around them - just a little nervewracking. He picks up another fry without actually eating it. "Then we started looking into the crime scene - a stone that was left there, and a poison. And we needed a New Age shop, which is what brought us to Craiger."

Which reminds him of her earlier question - why Maryland? Why not Massachusetts? "Beyond Beyond's only an hour and a half from D.C. That's where I live right now."