Question One
Dr. Carr has been offered a new permanent position in the FBI, which she is yet to decide on whether to accept or reject it. She later travels by plane to Boston and then by a taxi to the office of her girlfriend. It is then that it emerges that she is a lesbian, and she wants her girlfriend to help her think about the issue. It is then that the girlfriend, who is then introduced as Annalise, asks Dr. Carr whether her colleagues at the bureau know that she is a lesbian. Dr. Carr tells her that nobody knows about it because she has never told anyone about. I believe that in the 1970’s, the period in which the movie is set, being lesbian was a big issue that could alter the way colleagues, friends and society treated a person outside the normal sexuality orientation. At the time, lesbians feared coming out and revealing their true identities because of the impact that such an issue could bring. Dr. Carr was likely to be sanctioned in some way by the bureau because, as a professional and public agency, employing a lesbian could have attracted public rage and condemnation.
Question Two
Dr. Carr left her teaching job at Boston, and her girlfriend to take up the new position with the FBI. This happens a few moments after she returns to Boston from Quantico, where earlier on she had received the offer to take up the new position. While having the talk that Dr. Carr had earlier on requested, Annalise suggests that they go out and discuss it with some of her friends. It is during the discussion among Dr. Carr, Annalise and the two men that it emerges that Dr. Carr is clearly uncomfortable with the way that Annalisa holds her hand. In my opinion, I think that Dr. Carr felt embarrassed by the way Annalisa was treating her in front of her male friends. Dr. Carr was not yet ready to come out in the open and reveal that she was lesbian. She had not done it at the bureau and she had maintained it as a secret all through the time that she was teaching at Boston. Annalisa decided to reveal that they were in a lesbian relationship to her male friends without even preparing her for it. She felt embarrassed that her cover had been blown and her secret revealed. Out of the embarrassment, Dr. Carr had to leave Boston for good and take up the new position at Quantico that she had been offered by the FBI.
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Question Three
Agent Ford is clearly frustrated by the way the District Attorney had handled the evidence that they had worked so hard to develop. From the discussions that Agent Ford had been involved with the District Attorney and Dr. Carr, it was clear that their evidence counted to nothing. The DA was not willing to act on the direction that the two wanted the case to take, which was factual and a true representation of the events that led to the case they were handling. Later, the DA decides to throw out the evidence because he believes that the jury could not believe the complex explanation that is given. It is then that, out of the frustration, Agent Ford tells Agent Tench that, “What difference does any of this make if we can’t communicate it to the people who matter?”
