It looked like Harvey had a healthy respect for a certain Chief Prosecutor as well, and from the sounds of things, they'd worked together before. Funny how those types gravitated toward each other. He didn't really have any interest in either one of them at the moment, but this was something to keep in mind if that changed in the future.

Niikura shook his head as he ate some more of his cereal. "Nah, we're still going for it" - somehow - "but these past couple of days, we've gotten sidetracked one way or another." It was just one thing after another, really, from the mission to last night. What he really wanted to do was drop everything and magically become a brilliant doctor so he could figure out how to stop Shiina's illness from progressing, but she'd been quietly adamant about sticking to their original plan, and how could he really refuse that?

"What made ya think we dropped it?" As far as he knew, he hadn't even mentioned anything about the basement so far, and not even recently on the board unless Harvey was actively stalking his little exchanges with Mike and Shiina. Even those hadn't hinted at plans falling through...weird.