"Will these do?" She holds up a pair of blunt safety scissors, rummaging with her other hand in one of the shelves. "What kind of metal do you need? Sharp and narrow?" She assumes he's talking about making lockpicks.

"Well, my pops had some people owed him favors, too, kept a lot of old business off his doorstep," she observes and offers a box of staples. "Are these anything you can use?"