“I want to see the initial report.”

“I brought it.

It’s one page.” He turned it around on the table.

“Front only.”

Name, age, address, the word fall, the word stairs, and Deputy Pruitt’s signature at the bottom, looping back under the last line.

“No photographs.”

“No photographs.” Hale tapped his brass pen against the ring of the notebook.

“A state trooper captain gave me this pen when I made detective.