"I just saw him choking and spluttering after he ate a doughnut," Malcolm explained. "And then someone came in. Said he was Michael's brother. He spent some time in Michael's home office and then left."
And now Malcolm was just...voluntarily staying somewhere he was no longer locked in. Humming and cooking for himself. And he had taken care of the body of the captor. Robin glanced at Johnny and raised an eyebrow, mouthing 'stolkholm'.
"I thought you'd come," Malcolm explained. "When you found out. I'm not going anywhere. I'm not trying anything." The 'no reason to get Artemis involved' was left unsaid. He had lost some of that terror at seeing them, but he still clearly wasn't the same sheriff who had locked up and starved his boys and taken Marian.