As we've been walking through these, we've been detailing conversations that were less and less likely to have actually involved any direct coordination.
Adding to the doubts, some analysts are now wondering if the attack might have actually involved chlorine, which is also a chemical weapon but can be bought over-the-counter.
In the case of shechita, Jewish authorities say no investigations of the issue in Europe have actually involved the first-hand study of animal slaughter by a trained shochet using a chalef (shochet's knife), which differs from an ordinary abattoir knife in shape, length and sharpness.
He said: "He told me... David Sterling had shouted at Andrew Crawford: 'You kept this scheme open for the benefit of your family and you've caused a significant budgetary crisis in Northern Ireland". But the inquiry has also heard evidence that the conversation may not have actually involved David Sterling, but another civil service official instead.
"We've actually involved government in our planning meetings," she said.
In the 2008 book Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States National Iranian American Council co-founder and president Trita Parsi outlines a long history of exactly such secret dealings, except in the past it has actually involved Israel and Iran (under the Shah), rather than Israel and Saudi Arabia.
But the new committee noted that Father Kealy had actually been involved in setting up the archdiocese's sexual abuse review board.
In the original script, he was guilty of molesting women in cinemas; later, Rattigan revised the text to the story he had presumably wanted to write all along, that he had actually been involved in cottaging (unfashionable as it may be to admit it, I prefer the early version, because it allows the audience to make its own deductions).
