Hutchison: "There are a lot of adjectives that come to mind when one thinks of Terry Kilrea. Machiavellian schemer isn't one of them." He says Kilrea would have to be "some kind of genius" to have come up with a story that was later corroborated by objective evidence. He says where O'Brien's story makes sense is where it matches Kilrea's; where it breaks down is where is strays from Kilrea's version of events.