[ She attempts the joke because that's who she is, because even when she figures they're on the precipice of a more serious conversation she's going to be the one to try and keep it hovering in that place with more levity — but she also knows when to give up that effort, and it happens the moment she looks up and finds him staring back at her without any kind of wavering in it, not glancing away or attempting to avert his gaze because he doesn't want her to see it.
He'd given her the truth of his past a long time ago, told her the story of those losses and the name that had eventually sprung from his self-appointed mission to uncover the identities of those responsible for it — but her instinct tells her that he could likely only go about it for so long before the law caught up with him, and that's where she figures Nelson and Murdock had eventually come into play.
Now, she realizes why Foggy may have been a little purposefully vague on the details, because that whole pesky attorney/client privilege adopts a whole new meaning when said client is on trial for murder.
And so she just listens as he fills in those blanks for her, not trying to offer up any more or less than what the truth demands; she doesn't ask for the specifics on it because she doesn't need them, not unless it's something he thinks she needs to hear, maybe even feels she deserves the story behind. He's made his feelings on the name the public had given him pretty clear already, but this is the first she's hearing that his trial was such a media circus, or that he was believed to be a lost cause not worth defending, and then — she can't help but notice the shift in his voice when he mentions that third person, Karen, the one willing to help him uncover more of the truth. ]
They wanted to help. [ She's not saying anything he probably hasn't already figured out himself by now, but she thinks she has a solid knowledge of what he's like to deduce that he would've been stubborn enough to try and turn away their help until someone had given him a reason to work with them, not against them. ] And did they? Help you get the answers?
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He'd given her the truth of his past a long time ago, told her the story of those losses and the name that had eventually sprung from his self-appointed mission to uncover the identities of those responsible for it — but her instinct tells her that he could likely only go about it for so long before the law caught up with him, and that's where she figures Nelson and Murdock had eventually come into play.
Now, she realizes why Foggy may have been a little purposefully vague on the details, because that whole pesky attorney/client privilege adopts a whole new meaning when said client is on trial for murder.
And so she just listens as he fills in those blanks for her, not trying to offer up any more or less than what the truth demands; she doesn't ask for the specifics on it because she doesn't need them, not unless it's something he thinks she needs to hear, maybe even feels she deserves the story behind. He's made his feelings on the name the public had given him pretty clear already, but this is the first she's hearing that his trial was such a media circus, or that he was believed to be a lost cause not worth defending, and then — she can't help but notice the shift in his voice when he mentions that third person, Karen, the one willing to help him uncover more of the truth. ]
They wanted to help. [ She's not saying anything he probably hasn't already figured out himself by now, but she thinks she has a solid knowledge of what he's like to deduce that he would've been stubborn enough to try and turn away their help until someone had given him a reason to work with them, not against them. ] And did they? Help you get the answers?