Bob Benson is a problem-solver. It's 45 minutes before the SCDP Christmas party and Pete has a pretty big problem.
“Do you know how?” Wang Yizhou asks, but it’s all a light tease, and he’s already taking his hand away, as if in expectation.
“Nope!” says Ji Li, confident. Then, in a move that he will recognise, in hindsight, to be the start of the complete undoing of his whole night, he adds, “But I’ll learn. Really quick.” He fishes out his phone from the pocket of his shorts, and holds it up, almost conspiratorial. “Bet I’ll have it down in one video. I’m very resourceful like that.”
"Tang Fan," she starts carefully.
Tang Fan has no such concern. "Sui Zhou," is her counter. She dumps their bag at her feet, where its gaped mouth is swiftly fed her belt and chopsticks. "Your poor delicate Qing'er," she complains. "I will find a man and his wife to show me the pity here that you won't."
Hockstetter knows all the best places to hide. What else are friends for?
Ding Rong should have suspected scheming the moment he saw Wang Zhi in red.
Antinous considers how one might become unlovable.
India takes the cup. (Or: people disappear all the time, but seldom to such scenic locales.)
He might be Hickey's creature, now, but that doesn't mean he's happy about it.
Paul and Julian spend the morning together.
Hickey shows Crozier something new.