pre style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"Charles: The normal, Hank.

Hank: What's wrong, Chuck.

Charles: Genevieve's out of town with Nikolaj so I have no one.

Hank: What about your colleagues?

Charles: Tried already.

Hank: I'm sorry, the usual's coming up.

Hank pours as someone approaches Charles.

Man: Sorry about your friends and your girlfriend.

Charles: Thanks, Genevieve and I are getting married actually.

Man: Congratulations.

Charles: Thanks. Charles Boyle.

Man: Peter Mills.

Charles: Peter, where do you come from.

Mills: North Carolina, near Raleigh.

Charles: Interesting, what brings you to New York.

Mills: I work in a restuarant back home, what brings me to New York is related to that.

Charles: Interesting.

Mills: I also used to be a firefighter in Chicago.

Charles: That's pretty brave.

Mills: It was, my dad was one as well.

Charles: Brave what both of you did. I'm a cop myself.

Mills: Also brave.

Charles: And a food critic.

Mills: When I worked in the fire department, I was a cook over there and I'm EMT certified.

Charles: I investigated a pizza fire once with the local department, my partner hated the fire marshal.

Mills: That must've been bad.

Charles: Any food-related crime is.

Mills: Back in Chicago, my resturant got burned down.

Charles: I'm sorry.

Mills: It was devastating.

Charles: And sad./pre