In order to understand this article, I am going to ask you to believe in the impossible. We are told that doctors train for years to save lives, but that might not always be the case.
In criminal investigations, it’s often said that the only ingredients required for a crime are means, motive, and opportunity. “Opportunity” means that someone is at the place and time in which the crime takes place, or in some cases, the potential to be present. If someone’s whereabouts cannot be accounted for, a court may consider that the person had the opportunity to commit the crime. In Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, a passenger is murdered aboard a snowbound train. Every other passenger had the opportunity — they were all in the same confined space at the time of the murder. The detective, Hercule Poirot, must untangle the alibis to determine who actually acted on that opportunity. Poirot must untangle the alibis to determine who acted on that opportunity, piecing together the means, motive, and opportunity to solve the case.
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