Inside Matt's office, he was discussing the case of a twitchy young man who did some special bookkeeping for one of the large accounting firms in the city, whose boss had mysteriously disappeared the night of the blackout. Since then he was getting jittery about the activity, but feared going to the police. His brother-in-law was a police officer, he said, and there had been something off about him too since that night.

It was only a sliver of a backbone largely drawn out by self-preservation. Matt wasn't impressed with this man, nor did he particularly like him, but turning over a new leaf had to start somewhere, didn't it? Matt assured him that he'd be in touch, and that Cherry would ensure he had a safe place to stay until then.

He escorted the man to the door, seeing him out before turning around and rubbing his forehead a little. A large cup of coffee was in his hand despite it being mid-day and he drained it in one go as he made his way to the conference room where he heard Kate, Cherry, and Kirsten setting up.

"Look who decided to join us," Kirsten said with a smile. "I was about to eat yours if you didn't come by soon. Leave it to Kate to unbury you from work." Looking over at the younger woman she added, "This was really thoughtful, thank you. And I love your shirt." Back at Matt she added, "You had a visitor earlier. Young girl. Hector's niece, I think? She decided not to wait. I told her I'd tell you that she stopped by."

"Angela." Matt pulled out a chair and sat in it slowly. "I'll check in with her later." To Kate he added, "It does smell good. Thank you." Head tilted back at Kirsten he added, "Did you get the-"

"Yeah, I'm having Jasmine draft up the letter. We'll want that included in the discovery. Do you think-"

"Yeah, they'll try and appeal but that'll buy us time, too."

Cherry gave Kate a rueful look as he dug into his meal. "Welcome to my world."