Double Indemnity Reaction

Tina exits the train at the Federal Triangle metro stop and walks to work. She is an agent at the IRS who investigates tax fraud. But most days Tina is concerned with a different kind of investigation, one involving her brother who has been in jail for five years because of drug possession charges. Tina believes that her brother was wrongly convicted, and she has been trying find a way to have his trial over turned. The arrest and conviction of Tina's brother, Daniel weighs heavy on her mind. This is largely due to the fact that she was there the night it happened and there was nothing that she could've done to prevent it. Tina still keeps in contact with Colin Clark the lawyer who defended Daniel in court and decides to call him. Colin is …show more content…
A sucker for classic romance films she stops on a black and white movie where two lovers are confessing their feelings for one another. But what Tina is watching isn't just any old love story, in fact the film is more of a crime story than a romance-she's watching Double Indemnity. Inspired by the investigator in the film who has the revelation that he was too close to the subject to figure out who was guilty, Tina decides that she will distance herself from her brother's case (just a tiny bit) by hiring a private …show more content…
Tina recalls that the night that Daniel was arrested. The pair went out to celebrate Tina's acceptance into graduate school. She explains to Detective Clancy that Daniel had always been a bit of hothead and came close to getting into a fight at the bar with two men, but she was able to calm him down and the two left that location. However, Tina does admit that both of them were still a bit tipsy, so the details of the night become hazy. But because Tina and Daniel are from a small town, there are only so many places that they can go so they eventually end up at the same bar as the people who Daniel had a confrontation with earlier, one who was an off-duty