Can I suggest also looking for how the stories you look at give the limit to the audience? For instance, I haven’t looked for this info while watching Star Wars,and I can’t think of any instance where some character says ‘these are our options for rebelling against the empire’. The closest I can think of without having watched it in a while is ‘help me, Obi Wan. You’re my only hope’. And I haven’t watched much L&O but can’t imagine a character saying ‘we have to chase down the wrong lead’. I imagine it’s more like ‘we have two leads. The one we followed first was wrong’.