I excused myself for a moment and called my lawyer. Her name is Lindsey, and she is a senior partner at Graumann Gibb LLP, hard by Lincoln’s Inn. If ever you want to put your enemy’s feet to the fire in a legal tussle, I recommend her. Lindsey said she would come right over, and she would bring just the person to assist in the specific discussion. I went back to Detective Sykes and explained that there would now be a short delay. I invited the officers to wait. They elected not to. I had the distinct impression that calling lawyers was grounds for arrest in itself. It is a staple of crime dramas that only guilty people need lawyers before they discuss things with kindly policemen. The majority of crime dramas are written by middle-class white males with no actual experience of being accused of anything, and they are in any case about the brilliance of a particular detective. All the same, a surprising number of people—including police officers—believe what they see on the television screen without even wondering whether fact and fiction may not be entirely congruent.