Unfortunately, I've also already eliminated each of them, as either a coconspirator in the fraud or unaware of it until after the scandal broke.

Then use your brain, such as it is, to eliminate the impossible, which in this case is the ghost, and observe what remains, which in this case is a solution so blindingly obvious even Lestrade could work it out!

And so now we can look one degrees, two degrees, three degrees away from that node and eliminate three-quarters of the diagram outside that sphere of influence.

So, a large part of your job as a development executive is to separate the "Superstorms" from the "Slumdog Millionaires, " and slightly more generally, the writers who write "Superstorm" from the writers who can write "Slumdog Millionaire."