I lost touch of the character motivations after the journalist promises to write about the break-up between Connie and Pendergast. I can see how it would harm Pendergast's name unless he and Connie rushed to the altar. But how was a marriage between Connie and Joe supposed to help anything? That part seemed overly contrived. Or am I missing anything?
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That was very clumsy, but it was supposed to cover up the fact that the FBI discovered Carter in Connie's apartment in the middle of the night. I was confused by the FBI's sudden appearance. Don't they need to at least knock?
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The FBI received a tip that there was a Japanese spy in Connie’s room surveilling a department of the U.S. government using binoculars. Joe Carter had joked to a nosey teen neighbor of Connie’s that he (Joe) was a Japanese spy. Why the kid would have been so gullible as to believe Joe was an actual Japanese spy is anyone’s guess but he ran away terrified. And why the FBI agents couldn’t determine that the spy allegation was false without someone of authority vouching for him and why they would have concerned themselves with the impropriety of the unmarried Joe and Connie living together or Connie possibly cheating on her fiancé and might have reported it publicly or leaked it to the press is, again, anyone’s guess. I figure we are just supposed to suspend disbelief because it’s a comedy.
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