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Which of the following details is used in the passage to describe the emotional indifference of Rebus and the other detectives upon seeing the body?

1. Looking around, Rebus realized that the poor bastards must be left feeling like mice in a maze.
2. "Papers are going to have a field day with this," someone was muttering. There were a dozen figures shuffling around in the covered walkway between two of the high-rise blocks. The place smelled faintly of urine, human or otherwise.
3. In the past, it had been used as a dumping ground for tenants the council found hard to house elsewhere: addicts and the unhinged. More recently, immigrants had been catapulted into its dankest, least welcoming corners. Asylum seekers, refugees. People nobody really wanted to think about or have to deal with.
4. But already they knew they were dealing with homicide. Multiple stab wounds, including one to the throat. The trail of blood showed that the victim had been attacked ten or twelve feet farther into the passage. He'd probably tried to get away, crawling towards the light, his attacker making more lunges as he faltered and fell. "Nothing in the pockets except some loose change," another detective was saying. "Let's hope someone knows who he is . . ."

Answer 1 is more a descriptor of Rebus' observations of the area as a whole. Answer 2 doesn't pertain directly to the detectives, just a description of the scene. Answer 3 is more to set the type of environment as Rebus sees it. Answer 4 is the best choice because it shows the detectives collecting evidence without emotion or pity.