"Ah. You met 'im." Hank snorts softly. "Yeah, we were partners back in Detroit." Before a convoluted series of events that means very likely Hank has lost his job (he knows he's lost his job). But that's fine.

"Now we're just sort of partners in the 'take care of a room and share expenses' way. And we work as patrol officers at the Dualis Police Department. So we've downgraded from detectives."

But, as he'd observed before, maybe he needed to. Maybe he needed the time to remember the guy he was, and not the emotionally wounded and jaded man he became.