It's 2016 and email hacking/revenge pr0n is fairly widely known, so why does everyone - from Christine's boss to her family - assume that she sent the email herself? Why isn't the first assumption that it was a jilted ex-bf?
Actually, her new attorney boss, Skip, told her she could stay and he told David Tellis that he didn't think she had sent it. But Tellis had personal reasons for wanting her to be fired. So he wasn't going to accept any other explanation. As for her other coworkers, we don't know what they thought for the most part. She was a new intern and didn't seem too friendly with any of them. We saw the 2 guys laughing about it. There's always going to be a few like that. But most coworkers wouldn't know her well enough to know what to think and she offered no explanations to them.
After she recovered from the initial shock of seeing the video, Christine quickly schemed to gain an advantage. She recorded the two jokers in the coffee room. She made sure people could see her walking with Tellis and putting her arm on his back. She asked Tellis if his wife "knows about us?" She wanted him to be afraid of what she could do to his marriage. She told Erin that Tellis had grabbed her in the hallway and that she thought Tellis had sent the video, although she knew that it was Jack. She hoped Erin could save her career. The personnel guy, Evans, was careful with his wording when he sent her home. He said, "the email sent from your personal account" rather than saying "that you sent." And he said they needed to send her home until they could further assess the level of her involvement. He was being tactful but it was clear she was through at Kirkland. Interns have no clout and she had become an embarrassment to the firm. And they hadn't even addressed her using someone else's password to access Tellis' files.
The issue with her family was that they had not heard a word from her in the weeks since they received the video from her email account. You would think she would immediately explain the video to her concerned family. But since she said nothing, they could only take it at face value. When she finally went home weeks later, she told her sister she hadn't sent it but did not refute her sister's comment that she knew what Christine was doing (i.e., prostitution), since that was what was depicted in the video regardless of who sent it. Christine made no attempt to explain the video to her mother. She finally told her father it was sent by an angry ex boyfriend. Her father told her mother that the video was shot by an ex boyfriend but her mother didn't believe it. They never even got into who sent it. Her father wanted to believe the best about her. But her mother and sister believed that a video of her having sex and saying she liked being paid for it revealed that she was a prostitute. At that point, it didn't matter who sent the video.
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