- Mar 10, 2021
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He's opening a door he's going to regret passing through...
At the moment, the assumption is that Kate is some sort of NATSEC ivy-leaguer and that works dramatically as every beat of the plot thus-far has been about the realities of intelligence work and what you have to do to get the intel.
However, if you allow for the fact that Kate is more of a marginal figure who played in bands, did drugs, and slept with jerks for all the wrong reasons then you remove a lot of the tension from the plot you have. 'I have to suck this guy's dick for my job?' is less shocking than 'I have to suck the dick of a guy I don't really like for reasons of fitting in and I haven't done that type of thing since I was a teenager'
At the moment, the assumption is that Kate is some sort of NATSEC ivy-leaguer and that works dramatically as every beat of the plot thus-far has been about the realities of intelligence work and what you have to do to get the intel.
However, if you allow for the fact that Kate is more of a marginal figure who played in bands, did drugs, and slept with jerks for all the wrong reasons then you remove a lot of the tension from the plot you have. 'I have to suck this guy's dick for my job?' is less shocking than 'I have to suck the dick of a guy I don't really like for reasons of fitting in and I haven't done that type of thing since I was a teenager'