[COOL THEN THEY CAN JUST....work. Oswald's on his laptop on the couch, feet propped up on the coffee table, evidence folders sitting beside him that he opens up, makes notes about, and then closes and goes on to the next one.]
[And Edward is going to sort through his stuff. Clothes are all there, so those can stay in the box, that's good. There's some books that look... worn. Some of them look like puzzle books.
Yes, of course I do. [he shuts his laptop, then, shoving it off his lap and onto the couch so he can crawl over to the arm of the couch and peer over it at what Edward is doing in his Box of Things--especially at those lockpicks]
It's a very useful skill to have and one I've been meaning to cultivate.
[The box is mostly just a mess of clothes, a few (old, very worn) books, some... sudoku books. What looks like a little travel sized chess set. That... kind of looks to be it.]
...I could teach you, sure. It's not that hard with some practice.
Ah, well. First we kind of need a lock, but. Hold on.
[Edward digs through his stuff a little more. There's a small locked box. He takes it out, setting it on the coffee table. And he sets the lockpicks out, too.
edward why do you just HAVE THIS]
There's different lockpicks for different locks, but Gotham has a lot of old tumbler locks, so that's not much of an issue, usually. For that you want this pick... [setting aside the regular lockpick] ...and a tension wrench. [and that, too.]
Yeah. And then you want to insert the pick and... feel it out, a little? You have to get a good feeling of the space, since you can't see inside the lock.
Then you have to carefully push the pins up inside with the pick. One of them will hold more, and that's the one you gotta push up first and then you just sort of keep going. One at a time. Carefully feeling out which one will hold next. It has to be careful, so the lock doesn't freeze.
And once they're all in place you can just... turn the lock.
Well, if you're lucky you can just relieve the pressure of the pick and wrench and it'll reset on its own. If it doesn't, you might have to lubricate the lock, but that's not necessarily an option if you're just out and about.
[And Edward... well, it's kind of fast, actually. He works carefully, yes, but smoothly. He's done this a lot, he knows what he's doing. So it only takes a few moments for him to unlock the box.]
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And... is that a set of lockpicks.]
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...do you have a set of lockpicks?
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Um.
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Yes?
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Could you teach me?
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...You want to learn? Really?
[that's
kind of surprising]
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It's a very useful skill to have and one I've been meaning to cultivate.
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...I could teach you, sure. It's not that hard with some practice.
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Great! [he's going to shift to sit next to Edward] So what's the first step. [.....oswald, he probably didn't think you meant right this second]
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...Oh, he meant. Now? Like. Like, now, now?]
Ah, well. First we kind of need a lock, but. Hold on.
[Edward digs through his stuff a little more. There's a small locked box. He takes it out, setting it on the coffee table. And he sets the lockpicks out, too.
edward why do you just HAVE THIS]
There's different lockpicks for different locks, but Gotham has a lot of old tumbler locks, so that's not much of an issue, usually. For that you want this pick... [setting aside the regular lockpick] ...and a tension wrench. [and that, too.]
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rly interested]
So old tumbler locks--I need a pick like that and a tension wrench. Got it.
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[Edward does so. When he turns it to the left, it doesn't budge, but to the right, it gives... a little.]
So you know right away which way the key has to turn.
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Then you have to carefully push the pins up inside with the pick. One of them will hold more, and that's the one you gotta push up first and then you just sort of keep going. One at a time. Carefully feeling out which one will hold next. It has to be careful, so the lock doesn't freeze.
And once they're all in place you can just... turn the lock.
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[He's. Had some experience with this.]
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If it freezes, you just have to hope it resets or give up. Realistically speaking.
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...can I watch you do it?
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[And Edward... well, it's kind of fast, actually. He works carefully, yes, but smoothly. He's done this a lot, he knows what he's doing. So it only takes a few moments for him to unlock the box.]
...It's just kind of like a puzzle, really.
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That's...brilliant. [he sounds impressed]
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Well, I... I've had a lot of practice.
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