He chuckled faintly at the last remark but paused to consider it. What did he miss about being a medical examiner?

"The purpose of the work. Helping the dead." It sounded strange, he knew, but it was true. "Most of them died of natural causes. Simple enough. But the victims... Some of them didn't even know what happened. So they lingered, either wanting answers or wanting justice." He could help the living, yes, but he'd surrounded himself for so long with the study of death. "Detective Martinez helped me get that for them."