>b/c almost every inhaler I see has the person's name on it.
>On the bottle with the medication in it because that's
>required by law. if you take apart the inhaler, they would
>have seen the name and if the label was removed, they would
>see the serial number which would tell them whose it was. they
>didn't need him to take it to prove it was his.


So you're right - they wouldn't need him to take it to prove its his.

With that in mind, I think it was a gamble more than anything. He wanted to do something "nice" for Nasir, as to prime him for a confession but then he wised up and remember not to talk to him.


If Nasir had let the Detective keep talking to him, he could have eventually agreed to something that was more or less a confession. You could tell at the beginning that the detective was trying to paint the scene for Nasir, saying "oh I know you didn't mean to do it, it was the drugs and things got out of control". If he continued with that maybe he could have convinced Nasir to say "yea that's probably what happened" because Nasir doesn't even know himself.