Chapter 15
Now it was Diana's turn to ask questions of Ian.
"You told us that when you examined your SmurFF critiques that some just 'jumped out at you'. It would seem that had it been up to you, quite a few SmurFFs would have been sent away for analysis."
"No. All kinds of things were written that made me think that something was wrong. I couldn't understand it but I didn't go back through the old critiques and try to pick them out."
"But Randy did. Is that correct?"
"Yes. He told me he had found three SmurFFs among the radiology critiques that he thought were in your handwriting." Suddenly going from sober to smirk, Ian finished slyly, "and he was right."
Ignoring the obvious baiting attempt, Diana continued. "When you were referring to the critiques that jumped out at you, I take it you meant all the SmurFFs—not just the ones in evidence called 'suspicious' critiques?" She indicated the folders containing the material that had been sent to the document examiners.
"I mean the actual student critiques. They basically have the same kind of comments as those," replied Ian pointing to the folders.
"Then you don't agree that the reason these 'suspicious' critiques stood out was because they were so different? Isn't that the reason you took them to Lyle?"