If Chloe doesn't believe in second chances, why is she working as a probation officer? And if she refused to believe that Cruella had changed, why does she instantly believe Kevin is guilty?
For the first point, perhaps she had become a probation officer with the belief in second chances? And then years of having to deal with rotten clients made her cynical and believe that it's impossible for criminals to reform. As for believing Kevin is guilty, the situation looked very much like he had taken her out to dinner in order to secure an alibi for himself. She was probably very offended and hurt that she had possibly been duped and lied to.
She just doesn't believe Cruella had changed. Unlike what Kevin thinks, it doesn't mean Chloe doesn't believe in second chances.
Conflict of interests?
So, Chloe is aware of Cruella before taking her probation case and that her dog Dipstick was one of the 101 from the first movie - why was she given the case?
I find it extremely doubtful that your pet's history is a usual criteria for determining conflict of interest.
Exactly. Why would Chloe's dog be any of her bosses' business?
My only guess is maybe she didn't tell him. If he knew, yes, I'm pretty sure that would be seen as a major conflict of interest, so I guess he didn't know.
Way to drop the ball, bruh.
Also, about those psychologists - what would be the consequences if the courts discovered that their hypnotherapy could be reversed with the noise of Big Ben?
Well they'd be ruined. Or would possibly have to do more research to find out a way to stop that side effect. Or they could just make it a rule that their subjects can't live within a so-many mile radius of Big Ben.
The Mystery Seamstress
When Alonzo wrapped Le Pelt inside one of his fur coats during their fight, which was immediately sewn up by one of Le Pelt's illegal immigrant workers, why the worker sewed the coat if she knew that she was aiding a man into restraining her boss? She didn't consider that if perhaps Le Pelt had won the fight, he would have fired her for collaborating with Alonzo?
Le Pelt obviously mistreated them and I think she just reacted on instict.
The fact that she does that after Alonzo yells "Work!" supports the latter; they were conditioned to keep sewing when they heard that word and ask questions later.
Shouldn't be arrested, too?
How Alonzo wasn't arrested for helping Cruella and Le Pelt in their scheme for the dalmatian fur coat? I know that he redeemed himself at the end and aided Kevin and Chloe; to escape from the sweatshop's basement, but he was still an accomplice to the crimes Cruella and Le Pelt committed, so why he suffered zero consequences for his actions?
Alonzo was probably arrested and may even have been on probation at the end.
Waddlesworth "adoption?"
Why does Waddlesworth think that he's a dog, anyway?
Probably raised alongside those dogs.
Could also be that he was rescued from experimentation like Kevin's other dogs- Kevin's record of "dognapping" was because of rescuing dogs from being experimented on, and it would be easy to imagine Waddlesworth as someone whose experiments left him a bit confused.
The Chime of Big Ben being the trigger
Was it ever explained why the chime of Big Ben of all things was the trigger to snap patients out of their rehabilitation? I can buy it not being immediate since it seemed to need to be particularly loud to work (hence why, despite being in London, it didn't happen to Cruella until she heard it in an office right next door to Big Ben with the window open), but it still seems random and out there for that to be a reversal. The "Jostled their brainwaves" technobabble doesn't make this better.
The human brain is complex and odder things have happened. Perhaps some sort of loud chiming was part of the therapy to begin with. Anyway, it just seems to be an unexpected quirk of the therapy.
It isn't explained in-film, but bells are intrinsically tied to the ORIGINAL Pavlov, who used (smaller) bells to train dogs into expectation that he was about to serve them food. It was through these conditioning tests that he learned that the sound of the bell alone could induce salivation in dogs once they'd associated it with food.
