His lips twitched and he made a little chuff sound of amusement. Good that she could take and spin back a joke. He liked those, even if the words being spun back were his own.

"Actually you'd be surprised how much desk jockeying goes on for a front line fed," Tim said with a put upon expression. "My absolute favorite thing to do is stand in front of the scanner and scan every single confiscated bill of money into the computer to send over to the FBI and the Federal Bank. That's the kind of after that just gets me ..."

By some dumb luck -really it was dumb luck- Tim stopped himself before he finished that sentence with the inappropriate reference. Instead he cleared his throat and looking around, making an obvious sweep of the area as he answered the question.

"Deputy U.S. Marshal."