“Why are you going to the station?” I pressed.

“Because I need to pull the original case file out of storage,” he said clearly.

“Can you actually do that after all these years?” I asked.

“I can submit an official request to review it,” he explained.

“Will you actually do it?” I challenged.

He stopped at the bottom of the steps and looked back up at me with a pained expression.

“I should have done it five years ago,” he confessed softly.