just remember a question from the test:
1) I thought Sally was going to drop the ball but she suddenly made a brilliant XXXXXXXX
2) The thief put his hand through the window and released the XXXXXXX
3) The plan was too good to be true so she was sure there was a XXXXXX in it.

The task was to find 1 word that could be inserted in all these 3 sentences.
I reconstructed the sentences as I remember them, there might be mistakes, anyway the meaning is preserved.
Any ideas?

UPD: a catch