Neil was a man who served along side his military friend protagonist and their cause at the moment was to stop anything that may have caused world war three in the future. And they were extremely cautious and careful with what they were doing but they couldn't always tip toe.
And so they would just hold meetings in diners and just eat, talk, drink, and come up with anything that can help them in the situation. Usually it was easily avoided. But recently it's been blank slates lately. They couldn't think properly at their now noisy diner. And so now they had to get a new diner. That was more quiet. Comfy. It was a underground diner. The jazzy cats. Darker too.
Neil was sitting across his friend and they were just waiting for a waitress to come serve them. Even though only like 5 others people were in there.