What if the only thing she saw in him was an opportunity to play private detective?

There's no reason for you to play detective in this.

"Let's just be cool and live to play detective another day."

A murder, and he wasn't even allowed to play detective.

It's been a long time and I've forgotten how to play detective.

You'd think they'd be intrigued at a chance to play detectives.

I'd been sent to check on Greg, not to get caught here playing detective around his dead body.

"That's when I have to play detective and seek out the source of the problem," she said.

I am playing detective now, with nothing but a skull and old newspapers to go on.

But I really think it's just because she's playing detectives.