[As it turns out, the ride over isn't horribly awkward, and he can follow Lisa's lead more easily than he'd expected as she breezes her way in, all glittering smiles and little winks at distant people in the crowd. They're looking at her, not at him, which gives him a little more freedom to get his bearings.
There's no real sign yet of the guy he's after, but they hadn't thought there would be until he was ready to make his move, so once he's adjusted a little more to the fancy reception atmosphere, he's got some time to look around. And maybe to think how, well, yeah, how nice it is to have Lisa in his corner. She knows what she's doing. Better than he does, that's for sure, but he can fake it well enough, and she can fake it really well, and they're actually blending in.
Which is why, when he spots a beat cop Joe is friends with, he starts in that direction without really thinking about it, fully intending to say hi, entirely forgetting that, technically speaking, he has a criminal on his arm.]
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There's no real sign yet of the guy he's after, but they hadn't thought there would be until he was ready to make his move, so once he's adjusted a little more to the fancy reception atmosphere, he's got some time to look around. And maybe to think how, well, yeah, how nice it is to have Lisa in his corner. She knows what she's doing. Better than he does, that's for sure, but he can fake it well enough, and she can fake it really well, and they're actually blending in.
Which is why, when he spots a beat cop Joe is friends with, he starts in that direction without really thinking about it, fully intending to say hi, entirely forgetting that, technically speaking, he has a criminal on his arm.]