Chase quirked an eyebrow and glanced over at Connor. "You'll be thanking my diagnostic skills when that Valium kicks in. If it's not shock and anxiety, feel free to offer up more symptoms for me to work with. Unless you're bleeding from the brain or projectile vomiting, I'm not actually a mind reader, despite the fact my ex-boss used to like to think I was. If you do feel like projectile vomiting, though, at least do it out in the gutter. I just had my car detailed two days ago after you spilt that raspberry lube all over the back seat. Let's put it this way. You can trust me or you don't. The ball's in your court. It's not going to shift my situation in any way, but it could potentially help yours."
"No, it's not, and you know it," he countered with a small, cynical snort. He might be an American citizen now that marrying Cameron got him his Green Card, but he would always be Aussie at heart. "At least, the American law isn't black and white. Other countries are way more on the ball. In this place, you can get away with anything if you know what strings you can pull and tricks you can turn. You can pin people for things they didn't do, and you can do horrific things and get away scot-free. I've dealt with plenty of lawyers in my career, I know how they work and how they think. They hate us because of our Hippocratic Oath and that doctor-patient confidentiality surpasses their access to information without a court order or a subpoena. And even then? You only get what we write in the records. We can take what patients confess to us to the grave. The best criminal lawyers are criminals themselves, so maybe you've done yourself a favour ultimately. Work experience or some shit. And of course it's warm in my place, I'm Australian and this weather is cold enough to freeze the balls off a bloody brass monkey. Are you getting out or not?"
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"No, it's not, and you know it," he countered with a small, cynical snort. He might be an American citizen now that marrying Cameron got him his Green Card, but he would always be Aussie at heart. "At least, the American law isn't black and white. Other countries are way more on the ball. In this place, you can get away with anything if you know what strings you can pull and tricks you can turn. You can pin people for things they didn't do, and you can do horrific things and get away scot-free. I've dealt with plenty of lawyers in my career, I know how they work and how they think. They hate us because of our Hippocratic Oath and that doctor-patient confidentiality surpasses their access to information without a court order or a subpoena. And even then? You only get what we write in the records. We can take what patients confess to us to the grave. The best criminal lawyers are criminals themselves, so maybe you've done yourself a favour ultimately. Work experience or some shit. And of course it's warm in my place, I'm Australian and this weather is cold enough to freeze the balls off a bloody brass monkey. Are you getting out or not?"