But what, really, can we expect of a case put together by the same people who gave us that “matrix” about a plot against Duterte, a matrix met with such ridicule their manufacturers themselves feel only too relieved to not ever be reminded of it? The matrix was nothing more than straight lines arranged web-like to meet at points indicated by the names, and in most cases by the pictures as well, of the alleged conspirators. To call it “matrix” is to mock the sophisticated idea that the word refers to in this age of technology.