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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.

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Foregone Conclusion: The movie opens with a press conference announcing Hanssen's arrest.note This never happened in Real Life: Hanssen, 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. 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'.Christianity is Catholic: Justified, as Hanssen and O'Neill were.Truth in Television, as Hanssen was a devout Catholic who did indeed attend church every day. Very much true to life: O'Neill claimed in interviews about the movie that he couldn't stomach life in the FBI after the case was settled, citing exhaustion and depression. But Now I Must Go: O'Neill leaves the FBI after Hanssen's arrest.Broken Pedestal: O'Neill comes to respect Hanssen, and is quite shocked to learn the truth.O'Neill outright apologizes to her afterwards, stunned at how much he's misjudged both of them. Only for Hanssen to turn out to be a traitor and the deviancy charges to be true. Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: O'Neill comes to admire Hanssen and seems to regard Linney's character as a Straw Feminist, given her insistence on investigating what he believes are trumped-up sexual deviancy charges.Bruce Davison appears in one scene as Eric's father. Laura Linney is Agent Burroughs, an FBI counterintelligence agent investiganting Hanssen. Ryan Phillippe stars as O'Neill with Chris Cooper as 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. It tells the Real Life story of the capture of notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen. Breach is a 2007 film written and directed by Billy Ray.