Associate
Junior
Junior adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Usage example: junior advisers to the governor
Both words in one sentence
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Take the first two letters of Stottlemeyer's first and last name, along with that of his junior associate Randy Deacon (renamed Disher after the pilot), and you get a shout-out to Lestrade: Leland Stottlemeyer + Randy Deacon = Lestrade
Source: Inspector Lestrade - Setting up his office in the home of Baba Yaga, whom he recruits as an expert on forensics and all things magical (thanks to her criminal past), he is also given a simple-minded village boy named Dmitriy "Mitka" Lobov, as a "junior associate".
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