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* DoorClosesEnding: After Eric runs into Hanssen on the elevator and assures him that he'll pray for him, the elevator doors close. Cue FadeToBlack.[[note]]This never happened in RealLife: Hanssen, to this day, has no idea that O'Neill was involved in his capture, and they never met again after Hanssen was arrested.[[/note]]
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* DoorClosesEnding: After Eric runs into Hanssen on the elevator and assures him that he'll pray for him, the elevator doors close. Cue FadeToBlack.[[note]]This never happened in RealLife: Hanssen, to this day, has right up until his death, had no idea that O'Neill was involved in his capture, and they never met again after Hanssen was arrested.[[/note]]
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** Yet the final scene is still a fabrication. O'Neill never saw Hanssen after he was arrested. To this day, Hanssen (still in Florence Supermax) has no idea exactly how the FBI caught him, and certainly no idea that O'Neill was involved. People who interview Hanssen are specifically prohibited from discussing O'Neill with Hanssen (and since his information-input is very strictly controlled, it's not hard to otherwise keep him from finding out).
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** Yet the final scene is still a fabrication. O'Neill never saw Hanssen after he was arrested. To this day, Right up to his death, Hanssen (still (who was in Florence Supermax) has Supermax until he passed away on June 5, 2023) had no idea exactly how the FBI caught him, and certainly no idea that O'Neill was involved. People who interview interviewed Hanssen are were specifically prohibited from discussing O'Neill with Hanssen (and since his information-input is was very strictly controlled, it's not it wasn't hard to otherwise keep him from finding out).
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: And Bad People Have Bad Sex. When O'Neill's supervisor (played by Creator/LauraLinney) originally assigns him to the case she tells him it's because Hanssen is a pervert who harasses his female subordinates, videotapes sex with his wife without her knowledge, and writes porn stories about her on the Internet. After TheReveal about Hanssen's treason she tells O'Neill that "The sexual stuff is all true. Irrelevant, but true." Later O'Neill blunders into watching one of Hanssen's voyeur tapes.
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* SexualKarma: When O'Neill's supervisor (played by Creator/LauraLinney) originally assigns him to the case she tells him it's because Hanssen is a pervert who harasses his female subordinates, videotapes sex with his wife without her knowledge, and writes porn stories about her on the Internet. After TheReveal about Hanssen's treason she tells O'Neill that "The sexual stuff is all true. Irrelevant, but true." Later O'Neill blunders into watching one of Hanssen's voyeur tapes.
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It tells the RealLife story of the capture of notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen. The story is told from the POV of Eric O'Neill, a junior FBI agent who was assigned to be Hanssen's assistant as part of the investigation to bring Hanssen down. Creator/RyanPhillippe stars as O'Neill with Creator/ChrisCooper as Robert Hanssen. Creator/LauraLinney is Agent Burroughs, an FBI counterintelligence agent investiganting Hanssen.
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It tells the RealLife story of the capture of notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen. The story is told from the POV of Eric O'Neill, a junior FBI agent who was assigned to be Hanssen's assistant as part of the investigation to bring Hanssen down. Creator/RyanPhillippe stars as O'Neill with Creator/ChrisCooper as Robert Hanssen. Creator/LauraLinney is Agent Burroughs, an FBI counterintelligence agent investiganting Hanssen.
Hanssen. Creator/BruceDavison appears in one scene as Eric's father.
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* DetectiveMole[=/=]HiredToHuntYourself: O'Neill's supervisor mentions that Hanssen was this. Hanssen also alludes to this in his MotiveRant at the end.
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* DetectiveMole[=/=]HiredToHuntYourself: DetectiveMole: O'Neill's supervisor mentions that Hanssen was this.the head of a task force charged with ferreting out the mole, who was him. Hanssen also alludes to this in his MotiveRant at the end.
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* KickedUpstairs: Hanssen. The reason, of course, being so the FBI can watch him while it makes its case.
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* KickedUpstairs: Hanssen.Hanssen is put in charge of a new FBI information security division that doesn't actually exist. The reason, of course, being so the FBI can watch him while it makes its case.
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It tells the RealLife story of the capture of notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen. The story is told from the POV of Eric O'Neill, a junior FBI agent who was assigned to be Hanssen's assistant as part of the investigation to bring Hanssen down. Creator/RyanPhillippe stars as O'Neill with Creator/ChrisCooper as Robert Hanssen. Creator/LauraLinney is an FBI counterintelligence agent investiganting Hanssen.
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It tells the RealLife story of the capture of notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen. The story is told from the POV of Eric O'Neill, a junior FBI agent who was assigned to be Hanssen's assistant as part of the investigation to bring Hanssen down. Creator/RyanPhillippe stars as O'Neill with Creator/ChrisCooper as Robert Hanssen. Creator/LauraLinney is Agent Burroughs, an FBI counterintelligence agent investiganting Hanssen.
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* StockFootage: Opens with a stock footage clip of Attorney General John Ashcroft briefing the press on the arrest of Robert Hanssen.
* TitleDrop: When Agent Burroughs is done telling O'Neill the true nature of the investigation, she says "This is the worst breach in the history of U.S. intelligence."
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* WhamLine[=/=]TheReveal: "He's a traitor."
** An in-universe Wham Line for O'Neill, anyway. The ForegoneConclusion opening makes it less so for the audience, and as stated above, in RealLife, O'Neill knew this from day one.
** An in-universe Wham Line for O'Neill, anyway. The ForegoneConclusion opening makes it less so for the audience, and as stated above, in RealLife, O'Neill knew this from day one.
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* WhamLine[=/=]TheReveal: WhamLine: "He's a traitor."
**" An in-universe Wham Line for O'Neill, anyway. The ForegoneConclusion opening makes it less so for the audience, and as stated above, in RealLife, O'Neill knew this from day one.audience.
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* HomePornMovie: Eric stumbles onto one of these of Hanssen and his wife. Even creepier, it appears to have been made without her knowing.
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-->'''Can you imagine, sitting in a room with a bunch of your colleagues, everybody trying to guess the identity of a mole and all the while, it's ''you'' they're after, you they're looking for? That must be very satisfying, wouldn't you think?
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