"I think we're back to my original inquiry," the colonel said after another moment.
Neither official was involved in the original inquiry, which could make it easier to pull back from the earlier findings.
Which brings us back at last to my original inquiry, Priscilla.
Some suspicion had already fallen on 13 of these officers in the original inquiry.
But that merely led back to his original inquiry; who or what is David Lantano?
The original inquiry also took detectives to the north of England.
Given the Vatican's defense of its original inquiry, the latter seemed to be a more likely role.
One of those who was involved in the original inquiry said: "We'd arrange landline calls.
We need to find out why the original inquiry did not get to the bottom of what happened, he says.
He also stressed that it did not involve any of the officers from the original inquiry.