I'm glad I found this board! Amy Wallace is LOVELY!!!!

Oh, I'm so glad I found this board! Internal Affairs didn't have the swellest plot, but Amy Wallace, brilliantly performed by Laurie Metcalf, really made this film.

If anyone were the hero of the film, it's Amy more than Raymond or any of the others. I like that Amy is a non-stereotypical lesbian; she's feminine and truly all female while being openly and unapolagetically gay. We need more characters like Amy. Amy is a tribute to the gay and lesbian communities worldwide.

I watch this DVD because of Amy mostly. I laughed when Raymond's wife Kathleen accuses Ray of cheating with "his fckng girlfriend," meaning Amy and Amy is right there on the phone and overhears Kathy's tirade and is so, so embarrassed, but yet gamely and rather courageously carries on and tells Ray the bad news she has to deliver about another officer being dead.

Later on in the film, when Amy actually meets Kathleen, she's so, so gracious and I loved the way Amy smiled warmly at Kathy and shook her hand as if she never heard Kathleen's fit. That really showed character and courage. Then Kathleen realized that Amy really is a truly good person. Even if Amy had been straight, would never have fooled around with Ray; she had too much dignity and integrity.

Another example of Amy's dignified internal makeup is when Ray starts acting stupid and having a fit and throws the chair right there in the office and breaks it, Amy doesn't stoop to his level or let him disrupt her work; she doesn't indulge his tantrum.

I think Amy survived in the end, but was crippled, poor thing. She must have been so, so embarrassed when she'd heard that she'd asked Ray to hold her hand. It was funny, yet poignant and indicative of her sweet nature when she says I'm...sorry for being shot, even though it wasn't her fault.