As a prelude, a sort of neutral gear, she checks her media coverage, the unsparing assessment of her peers. Lönnrot’s ambush, considered from this distance, has not significantly damaged her standing, although a vocal minority evidently feels—like her—that she should have been more careful. The most common reaction is a collective dismay that someone was bold and bad enough to, as Lionel Jeffries once put it, slosh a bogey in the execution of her duty. The polis has not missed the implication of serious crime in that choice, the possibility of cover-ups and murder. The first question in hand is whether a foreign intelligence service has dared to interfere in the inner workings of the System. The Inspector has no reason to think so, but acknowledges the concern, and queries the Witness for an assessment of relevant overseas chatter. The response is immediate, and negative, though that in itself is not evidence of absence.