He had read the six pages.

He is about fifty-five and he has been in that unit for eleven years and he has the specific flat kindness of a man who has told several hundred people something they did not want to hear.

He said: “Ms.

Restrepo, I want to go through your document.

Not because there’s anything wrong with you making it.

I’d rather have it than not.

But you’ve built a theory and I’m going to take it apart, and I’d rather do it in a room than have you carry it around for another year.”