"Easy way, direct way, whatever you want to call it. I don't like beating around the bush and would rather just hack away at it with a machete." That metaphor was probably getting away from him, but that was just how Eli was. Sure, he was a reporter and that meant he was good at words, but in normal conversation he tended to get a bit overboard and sometimes lose the meaning of things when he got too worked up emotionally.

"Yeah, I've got an address for it," he said before rattling it off for him. "If you have too much trouble with the location, ask Officer Vasquez. He knows where it's at."