Well, it looked like Shiina hadn't given Harvey a straight answer either, not that Niikura was surprised, but the other man had also been able to pick up that something was definitely Not Right. 'Over her head' was certainly a new way of putting it, even though it fit the situation perfectly. Shiina really was in over her head, but the problem was that she didn't have much of a choice about it--well, she did, but she was choosing to not do anything about it. They had this weird thing going on where neither of them could decide on who needed to be protected more - her, the classic damsel in distress, or him, the endangered species - and all it was doing was putting them both in danger. They really needed to get that straight one day...

"Thought you'd say somethin' like that," Niikura said, letting just a hint of the doom and gloom bleed in. "I've noticed it too. Can't do much, unfortunately." Locking her in would mean locking himself in as well, and that would make both of them just as miserable, if not more than they were right now.