Rugby has its own Watergate. In a nod to the bugging of the Democratic National Convention at the Watergate Hotel in 1972, a move which brought down the American presidency of Richard Nixon, an attempt has been made to eavesdrop on the All Blacks' team room ahead of the opening Rugby Championship test against the Wallabies last night.
The listening device sewn into a chair might have been used to uncover the activities of a hotel tenant before the All Blacks moved in on Sunday. If not, we are left with one alternative: some individual or organisation was determined to find out more about the New Zealand tactics.
The prospect of coach Steve Hansen's "Pa Bear" dialect being decipherable to a bug buried in centimetres of foam remains moot, but either a fan had a Rain Man-like fetish for unravelling lineout calls and scrum moves, or something more sinister was at work.
Australian police have been alerted and the hotel, Sydney's Intercontinental in Double Bay, has launched its own investigation.
Let us channel our best Sherlock Holmes to reveal motives for "whodunit?".