Rita nods at his offer to help. She's not sure he's much of a researcher, but it can't hurt to have two sets of eyes skimming these shelves. Three, if Nigella counts.

She reaches for the shelf to pull out another book at random, but pauses at that reassurance. "What do you mean?" she asks, looking vaguely unsure. That sure came out of the blue, not that that's unusual for Cole.

But there's a part of Rita that immediately wonders if he could be responding to that...