other critics too had niggling worries about the reality. for example, as melinda witstock noted later in "the times", when the film showed an mi5 chief promising to help stalker, then reaching for a telephone and saying "we have a problem" once stalker had gone, who could have been present to witness such a call? or as hugh hebert asked in "the guardian", when the film showed a battery genuinely stolen to lure the uniformed ruc men to their deaths, but stalker's book said the call had been made by a farmer under duress, who is the viewer to believe? for the television dramatist g. f. newman in "time out" the film did not show "the" truth − it was thorburn's truth; and sheridan morley cautioned that the film was a drama, not a documentary: "we have no absolute guarantee that it has given us the whole truth".