Miranda was Leon Prevant’s junior colleague at the shipping company before he was let go in the wake of a company merger. Miranda replaced Leon in the midst of the restructuring. It’s Miranda who invites Leon to serve as a second witness to the investigation into Vincent’s disappearance onboard the Neptune Cumberland, a container ship operated by her shipping company. Miranda hires Leon because she wants to ensure that Vincent receives a fair, thorough investigation, and Miranda knows that internal investigations often lead to coverups. Miranda’s efforts to create an unbiased investigation are morally upstanding. At the same time, though, she ignores a remark of Leon’s that hints at his connection to Vincent (Vincent was Jonathan Alkaitis’s wife, and Leon has just lost all his money to Alkaitis’s Ponzi scheme), which could be seen as a conflict of interest. This suggests she’s more invested in projecting the outward appearance of an impartial investigation than an actual impartial investigation.