INT. COUNTY INTERVIEW ROOM — MORNING
内景 · 县拘留所会见室 · 上午
A new defense lawyer divides a legal pad into three columns: saw, heard, and assumed.
一位新手辩护律师把便笺分成三栏：亲眼所见、后来听说和个人推测。
CLIENT
I am certain the clerk believed we took something.
我确定店员认为我们拿了东西。
LAWYER
Confidence describes a feeling; detail gives us something to test. What did the clerk actually say?
自信是感受，细节才提供可检验对象。店员当时究竟说了什么？
CLIENT
I saw him look at the bag. The accusation came later from the officer.
我看见他盯着袋子。指控是警员后来告诉我的。
LAWYER
Good. We will record both facts and leave his belief as an open question.
很好。我们记录这两个事实，把店员的想法留作待核问题。
One confident sentence becomes two observations and one unresolved inference.
一句自信的陈述被拆成两项观察和一项尚未解决的推断。