"I don't see how you can use probability to solve murders," Meritxell is saying to Keltham at lunch,  "because you'd often end up really unsure and it'd be embarrassing to act while that unsure. Is anyone going to be all right with, 'we have decided there is a seventy percent chance this is the murderer, so we're going to execute him now and be done with it'?"

"I don't see how you can use probability to solve murders," Meritxell is saying to Keltham at lunch,  "because you'd often end up really unsure and it'd be embarrassing to act while that unsure. Are people really all right with, 'we have decided there is a seventy percent chance this is the murderer, so we're going to execute him now and be done with it'?"