[Well, he's not at all wrong. Plenty of people have taken to the bottle - Alice not exactly excluded, though she's not drinking to the point of drunkenness.]

Are you sure that's a good idea?

[A beat, and then - ]

We didn't have a trial today. If the pattern from the last couple of times holds, doesn't that mean someone's going to die tonight? You don't want to have a headache during the trial, do you?