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Jeremiah's office was, as usual, neat and orderly. The door would normally be kept open but this day no. This was a day wherein the Detective Lieutenant was getting work done. Which usually involved a lot of computer typing and file checking and a healthy amount of tea.

His neck ached.

It was probably time for a new chair (or adjust the monitor or take something or, you know, less stress).

At the foot tap, and familiar voice, Jeremiah was pushing himself up from his desk and heading to get the door. A hand was held out expectantly. Not for the files but just in case they were going to topple because he knew just how much was coming his way.

"Thank you for your prompt response, Miss Liu." The door was pushed the rest of the way open for her to come in and set them on his desk. "I've got some to give you to take back as well." Besides the ones she probably had for him to sign immediately.

"June," he amended, "I'll endeavor to remember." Except that Jeremiah was, if anything, proper and a gentleman at work. For the most part. He stepped out of her way once he was sure the stack was not going to fall and let her move forward.

"Let me get a pen out of my desk and I can sign them for you." Moving around his office, he went to his desk only to have to go through three drawers before he found one pen. Someone had to be pilfering his pens. It was getting old.

One day it would settle into his brain, one day.

Jeremiah looked up from his desk and simply sighed. "I already put in a request for more. I can't prove it but it looks as if someone is pilfering my pens." He took a pen from June and was reading over the releases before his signature was added at the bottom.

A lot of paper shuffling.

"As well as can be expected considering." With one last signature applied, the papers were read and shuffled through one more time before Jeremiah was offering them back to June. For all that he loathed paperwork, not wanting anything to do with it, he was quick and efficient at it when the need came up.

"However, now that you're here ..." June was receiving one of those serious work stares. The kind that would likely lead to her having to find things. "I've got something I need to know if there's any files or records about."

"I will make sure to call you June if you do not salute me when it's not necessary," Jeremiah gave her a look. "As for what I want ... I want you to look into the old department records for particular case. Specifically prior to 1920s."

"Not necessarily a bad joke, just-" Jeremiah just let it go. Even after all of these years unnecessary saluting still did not sit well with him.

"Missing persons cases where they later turned up dead." Which was rather specific. His posture shifted, shoulders rolling. Jeremiah's office was warmer than most of the building. There was more but he was going to let her get it written down first.

"Not exactly, no. A bit of personal interest, perhaps, but also because it seems disappearances aren't so uncommon in the history of the town either and it may offer clues in light of finding Miss Winter's-" His lips pressed to a thin line. There was no need to continue on that Heliodora's foot had been found.

The case was back at the forefront, at least until Blackfriars had happened.

"If there's anything in the past, I'd like to know about it." He paused because this was the odd part but ... "Also, this may seem strange, but apparently there was another Jeremiah that lived in this town years ago, so if you see anything like that pop up, bring it as well. They were one of the disappearances that happened in the town's past. If you can find any files about it, pictures, I'd like to see them as well."

Jeremiah's fingers tapped against his desk where he leaned against it. "In fact," he said slowly, "I wouldn't actually mind helping. I've not been into the basement archives in a while since they moved everything around and started to go digital." It was still a process with the older records, the newer ones already handled. He looked over to her. "I'm sure you've got it down and it's about time I relearned it."