Malik recognizes the beads; he has an eye for interesting things, and he'd noticed Suresh wearing them once. Privately, he thinks they'd look much better on Jin Yoon. And they hadn't looked bad on the doctor.
He gives her a sly smile. Suresh is scatterbrained, easy to steal from, but he's still perversely impressed with her.
"Hide them under your mattress," he suggests, gesturing to a little hole in the underside of the mattress covering. "But let me see them first."
He takes them from her hands and slips them over her neck.