After receiving the CD, and listening to it, why didn't Madolyn just use it to turn Sullivan into the police herself?
Maybe she wasn't sure about it at the time, but after Sullivan kills Billy, why didn't she?
maybe she would. but dignam finished the job. i think Sullivan would kill Madolyn next, because she was a great threat to him. the guy is a real as.hole, he would do anything to save his a.ss
shareWell when Sullivan asked her about the baby, he had this look on his face, like he cared about the baby. So I thought he would not want to kill her, cause he would still want the baby to be born.
shareI think she gave Dignam that envelope she kept for Billy. So she did turn him in. I don't know if she was aware Dignam would kill him.
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i don't think that Dignam needed the envelope to know Sullivan was the rat. The moment Queenan was killed, Dignam started suspecting Sullivan. When Costigan and other 2 troopers were killed, Dignam definitely understood Sullivan was the rat.
shareShe was a pretty smart girl. I'm sure she was sitting on it, thinking about it. I think she was getting around to it, but then Sullivan got jacked before she could do it.
I actually wonder why Billy didn't go to his superiors instead of taking on Sullivan himself. Ellerby would've loved to hear all about it.
I posed a similar question myself on this board a while back and I think the answer was that neither Billy nor Madolyn knew who they could trust in the police department, other than Dignam and the fellow trainee that Billy remembered. Although this makes sense, it wasn't conveyed clearly by the film.
And even then, you have to wonder, why didn't Dignam arrest Sullivan instead of murdering him? Surely Dignam still trusted someone in the police department.
The envelope billy gave her must have the details where those boxes of tapes are and probably request to give that info to dignam. Because he can't trust anyone from unit to hand it over to dignam, he does not know how many or who's corrupt. Mafolyn was not connected to them and she could have located dignam under official capacity being a police shrink.
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