You're probably being intentionally vague here to avoid "naming names", but I'd love to hear the actual details of this story: the topic under discussion, the i

You're probably being intentionally vague here to avoid "naming names", but I'd love to hear the actual details of this story: the topic under discussion, the interrogation that lead up to the "point where [you] could go no further", what the last question was, and what a simple experiment to answer it would look like.