[Explain all you like, Javert. Your wife hasn't been pleased with any of your decisions for weeks now.]

I don't see why that would matter. Tamaki may be an irritatingly enthusiastic young man, but he is the closest thing Alice has to family left. She'll be happy enough living with him.

[And with the information in hand that she called to weasel out of him, Naomi is done with this conversation. Since her internal revelation on her husband's secret affections for another woman, the man's wife has withdrawn from him considerably. She honestly has little desire to even speak to the Chief Inspector beyond this.] ...I need to go. She's calling.

[Naomi has never been one for goodbyes when they were happy together. Now it is just awkward.

She hangs up without another word.]