And, being Maddie, she utterly ignores the reverence in his voice, and tries to ignore the fact that he's probably 'taken.' Bugger all.

"No, he is a idea man for a stage conjurer. Invents tricks and things like that. On some of the more difficult cases I've investigated, he's come in and consulted. Lateral thinker. Would like the moving staircases and trying to explain how all this magic stuff works."

She looks to the side. "Drug dealers and giant purple things? I haven't seen those yet. Murderers, though...lots of those. I hear there's one with his index fingers missing, cut clean off. An FBI agent said she'd arrested him and he's here. Take care of those."