""Beth doesn't seem to be in good terms with Catherine. Apparenty, she broke every tie with her after college because she considered her dangerous and a possible murderer. Why would she give Nick's psycho files to her? I don't know. I'm not fully convinced. Nielsen seemed to have a real and concrete motive to give those files to Catherine. He despised the guy and he considered him unfit to stay in the force. One more thing: didn't Catherine kill Nilsen? That could be explained because she didn't want to know who was her source. She didn't want to know that Nilsen gave her the file and so she killed him. ""
I get your point. I do.
But there is one key thing which eliminates Nielsen as being the one who gave Catherine the files:
When Nick barged in Nielsen's office and grabbed his collar and said 'why did you give her my file?' Nielsen didn't know what the hell Nick was talking about. It was a genuine reaction, one of confusion. Yes I know some viewers will try to rationalize this away like Nielsen was posing or whatever, but in movie terms it is a solid rebuttal of the proposal that Nielsen gave her the file. This is the thing that always bugged me, for years, that was nagging at me in the back of my mind because it didn't add up.
Nielsen wasn't even aware of Catherine. His gripe was with Nick. His hatred was for Nick, stemming from an old beef.
Unless you want to try to say Nielsen was just denying it to Nicks face when he barged in. But in that case the filmmakers failed because they should have cut in a knowing facial expression on Nielsen's face to let the viewer know that he KNEW he had given the file but was denying it to fuck with Nick. By not doing this, we must take it that Nielsen truly was uninformed about anything to do with Catheriine. Again, his focus was on Nick.
""Curran was saved with a crooked investigation, I guess, and Nilsen didn't swallow it. That's why he gave those files to Katherine. He wanted Curran out of the force. That's the best explaination that I can find considering the attitude of his character.""
I get your point. But, this presupposes that Nielsen was in on the whole plan to Kill Johnny Boz. You have to remember that ALL OF THIS was planned in advance by Catherine, way before Boz's murder with the ice pick. So that would mean Nielsen gave the file to Catherine back before the murder, but for what reason? I get your angle here but it doesn't add up to me that Nielsen would have been in on the planning of the Boz killing, before the movie started.
We may never know these answers for sure. I wish Ezsterhas would answer these questions on a podcast or something lol
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