The next thing I knew the cruiser with me huddled in the backseat was adrift in a sea of reporters. Flashbulbs detonated in my face, a long television camera snaked into the car through the open window, its lens whirring in and out as it tried to focus on my tear-streaked face. “Can you tell us how you figured out the identity of the serial killer?” “I can say you I used game theory, also the theory of randomness, to prove the perpetrator was trying to make his crimes look random. This discovery led directly to the serial killer.” “What’d he say?” “Come again?” “Would you run that past us once more looking straight into the camera?” “It is as plain as the nose on your face. The conscious effort to produce randomness negates rand

