Dead Man Rising — Episode 20

My name is Sentinel I'm the collective's intelligence officer People often assume my job is gathering information It isn't My job is verification Facts don't care about reputation They don't care about power They either withstand examination or they don't People think investigations begin with questions They don't They begin with patterns One unusual event rarely means anything Two can still be coincidence And repetition becomes a pattern I've learned something over the years The right question is more valuable than the right answer Answers can be rehearsed They can be repeated They can even be believed But questions are honest I stopped listening to what people answered and started listening to what they couldn't When people lie, they usually add details But when history lies, places remain Events don't People appear without anyone remembering their arrival I expected evidence to tell me what happened It didn't It told me what was missing I've reached one conclusion I don't know if Jesse is innocent I've learnt that assumptions are the enemy of truth People can lie Memories can fail But evidence doesn't