I agree there was no spark from that scene that showed any interesting character. But I thought it was a pretty good Chicago accent. One of my profs was from Chicago and it was darn close to his voice (he looked a bit like him, too).

I found the premise of the series kinda stupid. Not sure where you can really go with that- although you could do a Nero Wolfe sort of thing (Wolfe sent Archie out to do the work-- he rarely went out-- but Archie was the main character, not Nero). I don't think the chick was bad, but her character wasn't interesting enough to carry the show, either. Maybe other scenes would prove me wrong, but the premise sounded like a bad "Monk" knock off.