At least he seemed to be taking the idea well. Badd was used to victims of assault and torment, but he wasn't used to treating them gently...when he wanted to be compassionate, he backed off and let someone more capable handle it. But there was no one else to do it, so all he could do was hold to Byrne's hand and keep him distracted.

"Time and location, and the names out of outside parties.I got the murderer story too. They made it out like I was some cop who went crazy after his wife left him and started falling for his prey, which I assumed was supposed to be you." He threw in a rough chuckle, to accentuate that he found it just as ridiculous. It made for good drama, a real detective noir story with some psychodrama and bizarre homoeroticism thrown in. The boys up in Landel's office must have had fun rewriting his life into such a twisted image.