As the two men step out onto the balcony James notices that the detective seems to be signaling towards someone with the feeling of him being watched vanishing just moments later with the lawyer figuring that Mason might be the cause of it. Both men walk towards the furthest corner of the balcony with them standing as close to the wall as possible with James turned towards the building to inspect his<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indochino.com%2Fimages%2Fproductimages%2F1518656677.2131519022.primary.original.jpg&amp;hash=e0a999a67ceb7305a4c68beb5be5eb06" href="https://www.indochino.com/images/productimages/1518656677.2131519022.primary.original.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"> black suit</a>in the window's reflection. "So what is it?", he asks with him turning around to rest his body against the same window while looking at the grumpy old detective.<br/><br/>"You can recall the name Grant Sharp right?", Mason asks with James nodding. "Who hasn't heard of him legendary detective killed in the line of duty", he replies as little bit unsure why he would bring up a detective who's been dead for at least 15 years if not longer. "Good what you might not know is that Sharp was looking into corruption within the force which according to one of the many stories got him set up and killed in a mobster trap. Now you must wonder why I am telling you this but Sharp has a daughter a girl called Jackie", the detective explains with him stopping for a moment to take a puff of his cigarette with James chuckling softly.<br/><br/>"Let me guess the girl has joined the force and you fear that she might start looking in to my special little operation and quite possibly ruin everything?", the Lawyer asks with him shaking his head slightly at the detective. "Exactly", Mason replies with him grinning softly for a moment. "Trust me I knew her old man, he was brilliant yet he was to focused on making sure that justice was served and unwilling to look away when needed. Trust me it was that which ensured he got killed as he received plenty for warnings" he continues with him pausing for a moment. "Anyway the girl looks like her old man alot and you are right I fear she might stick her nose into the case eventually and I can't always stop her. I will keep my end of the bargain and keep everyone away from your operation as much as possible but she might start looking into anyways. If I know I will warn you but the girl is inexperienced and she doesn't always tell me everything so be advised about that", the detective continues with James not really sure why he is telling him all of this.<br/><br/>"And I should know this because......?", the lawyer asks a little bit unsure with Mason grinning softly. "Because you're going to give her a prize tonight.  I made sure that the person who was going to give it isn't going to show up so asked the chief that you do it instead", he replies with James rubbing the back of his head a little. "And you want me to do this so I know what she looks like so when she shows up without you warning me you want me to deal with her as she could jeopardize everything?", he asks with the detective nodding. "Exactly....", he replies with him suddenly stopping as he spots a figure trying to get out onto the balcony. "So anyways, your firm is quite busy with all these cases", Mason says swiftly changing subjects with Thackery following without any problem.<br/><br/>"Business is good; I'm even talking to several other well-known lawyers from the competition to see if they want to work for me. With a bit of luck I can actually go back and manage the firm itself while my lawyers are dealing with the cases. Not that I don't love doing it but I'm not paying myself to do all the cases", he chuckles with both men looking at the male entering the balcony to have a smoke just as Mason finishes his. "Good to hear Mister Thackery, it's a pleasure talking to you and I am looking forward to work with you on the project", the detective says while shaking James's hand to give him a small card with a sim-card in it, one that's not traceable by the cops. With that the detective walks inside with James following just moments later.<br/><br/>Once inside he does feel a pair of eyes being back and looking at him but the lawyer walks around casually taking a glass of champagne from one of the waiters having chats with several people that it until the ceremony is announced. Whoever might be keeping an eye on him won’t notice anything weird with the lawyer heading towards the backstage area of the podium with him talking to Chief Robinson while the master of ceremony is explaining to James how things are going to work. It’s not that hard really with James standing on stage together with the other prize-providers with him going to give the prize for best rookie to Detective Jackie Sharp. Once her name is called he will receive the prize from one of the ladies walking back and forth with the prizes and he is going to give it to Jackie before allowing the local press to take several pictures before he’d walk away allowing miss Sharp to have her picture taken alone. It’s not that exciting but it would give James all the time he needs to get a good close look at Jackie as perhaps one day they might come face to face in a different situation.