No one—'present writer' included—thought the plan would work. [=no one, including me, thought the plan would work]
She is promoting her latest movie, which 'the present writer' has not yet seen. [=which I have not yet seen]
They identified the 'writer' of the mysterious letter.
(..) It's Walter Cronkite. It sounds like: "That's the way it is." You know? It's so great. In one life you're Thomas Anderson, program writer for a software company. After a while, I picked up on Larry and Andy's rhythms. Larry and Andy both have an incredibly deep voice and ... ... Agent Smith (..)2001 The Matrix Revisited