"Yes," Chase Pakhet says. "But I pinched him as hard as I could on the inner thigh and paid for it while he was screaming. I can’t blame him—I should think it was extraordinarily painful. I had quite long nails at the time." She shrugs. "More prosaically: in the first instance your interrogation narratives comprise a story about lies and truth. Someone is always lying. Someone is always telling the truth. Sometimes these things are being done at the same time by the same person. Fraud becomes reality. There are cuckoos everywhere, laying eggs in other people’s nests. I take it your subject was not enamoured of the interview process?"