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Breach film movie#

"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?" Motive Rant: A subdued one by Hanssen at the end.Arguably also O'Neill after he is inserted into Hanssen's office.

Lock-and-Load Montage: Briefly, as the agents prepare to arrest Hanssen.

The reason, of course, being so the FBI can watch him while it makes its case.

Kicked Upstairs: Hanssen is put in charge of a new FBI information security division that doesn't actually exist.

But other than that, he fails to see through the numerous lies Eric tells him throughout the film, many of which are made under duress and should therefore tip off even the least perceptive person. Later, after asking Eric several mundane questions, he is able to deduce which answer is false.

Informed Ability: Hanssen is supposedly a Living Lie Detector, which is why Eric isn't given a cover story - "Hanssen would peel it away in a day".

He also chastises Eric for a suggestion that could put the Bureau at risk for infiltration, even though he's been giving information to the Russians for years.

Not to mention how devoutly religious he is, even while betraying his country on a regular basis to the "godless Communists", no less. The most glaring demonstration of this is when he sternly chastises O'Neill for eyeing an attractive woman - "You're married!" - despite his own deviant sexual behavior. In-universe also, as by the time this happened, the investigation was already in gear.

How We Got Here: The film opens with the press conference announcing Hanssen's arrest, then flashes back to two months earlier when Eric was first assigned to be his assistant.

Even creepier, it appears to have been made without her knowing. Home Porn Movie: Eric stumbles onto one of these of Hanssen and his wife.Hanssen was known to be obsessed with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Hanssen is seen with a DVD of The Mask of Zorro, and is later seen watching Entrapment.Historical In-Joke: Upon their first meeting, Hanssen tells O'Neill "If I ever catch you in my office again, you will be pissing purple for a week." In Real Life, Hanssen was fond of the phrase "That purple pissing Japanese", which is how the FBI caught on to his spying he used the phrase in a conversation that was under surveillance.Hired to Hunt Yourself: O'Neill's supervisor reveals sadly that part of the reason that Hanssen has evaded capture for so long is that for a while the investigation into the mole's identity was led by Hanssen himself.The Fundamentalist: Hanssen is a Catholic Traditionalist who attends a Latin service where attendees kneel throughout, doesn't react well to working women, fully expects Eric's wife Julianna to become a Baby Factory and claims to have "almost ripped the cable out" after seeing a gay marriage advocate on television.

Breach film movie#

Foregone Conclusion: The movie opens with a press conference announcing Hanssen's arrest.note This never happened in Real Life: Hanssen, to this day, has no idea that O'Neill was involved in his capture, and they never met again after Hanssen was arrested. Door-Closes Ending: After Eric runs into Hanssen on the elevator and assures him that he'll pray for him, the elevator doors close.(He does make a subtly creepy comment about Catherine Zeta-Jones, whom the real Hanssen was fixated on.) Dirty Old Man: Hanssen, though he never really comes across as such, even after The Reveal that "the sexual stuff is all true" (the tape of him and his wife having sex aside).Hanssen also alludes to this in his Motive Rant at the end. Detective Mole: O'Neill's supervisor mentions that Hanssen was the head of a task force charged with ferreting out the mole, who was him.Kathleen Quinlan (Bonnie Hanssen) makes an error when asking Juliana if she liked the "service".