"Well, it always seemed like one of those things you just have to have explained to you, and then you have to practice with it. A bit hard to show someone since locks are, by nature, hidden. Or at least the inner mechanisms are," he reasoned out. The more he spoke about it, the more he thought it would be in his interest to learn the skill - for purely justifiable reasons of course. At some time in the future.

"Movies in my world always made it seem like you just had to more or less memorize the patterns of certain lock makers and you could crack just about anything."