Conclusive to you is not evidence

A scene from a story. Illustration, not evidence. Nothing in it is a finding. What it stands in for, and what it does not establish, is set out below.

"This isn't evidence."

"No."

"It's not even close. It's a man being punctual."

"I know exactly what it is." Ifeoma put her coffee down. "It's the most conclusive document I will ever possess and there is nothing in it that a lawyer could not dismantle in eleven seconds, and I've known both of those things at the same time since the second of September." She looked out the window. "Do you know what that does to a person? To read a thing correctly and have the reading be worth nothing?"

"Yes," Adaeze said. "That's most of my field."

Ifeoma laughed, once, without much in it. "Keep it anyway."

"I'm going to keep it and never use it."

"Yes," said Ifeoma. "That's why I gave it to you."