I also think that the romance between Doug and Claire is totally implausible and impractical. Not that people of different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds can’t and don’t get into relationships…that happens all the time in real life, but what’s an attractive-looking, educated woman who makes a decent salary as a bank manager and owns an expensive condo in Charlestown doing with a guy like Doug MacRay, who’s not only uneducated and without skills of any kind (he just works in (i. e. fooling with drugs/alcohol, picking fights with teammates), but is also a professional armed bank/armored car robber with an extensive criminal record who’s also a wanted fugitive on the lam from the law? That whole idea really doesn’t sit well with me..at all, and I refuse to buy into it.

If somebody’s sort of a wise-guy, that’s one thing, but Doug MacRay is a professional career criminal, armed felon and wanted fugitive, and the fact that Claire is either too naive or too willfully ignorant to sever all contacts with Doug and immediately seek help from the Feds almost defies belief. Saying that Claire abetted Doug’s crimes is a little strong, but the fact that she refused to sever all contacts with him even after learning who he really was, after Doug acted so deceitfully towards her, and after the Feds learned of Doug and Claire’s relationship through a recorded phone call between those two is beyond stupid, plus it makes Claire sort of an accessory to Doug’s crimes, to boot, no matter what anybody says or thinks

I also don’t like the fact that Claire made total dupes of FBI S. A. Frawley and the other Feds right when they were on the verge of catching Doug MacRay and sending him to prison, where he belonged, by giving Doug a “Sunny Days” tipoff to the Feds’ presence in her Charlestown condo. Frankly, I think that Agt. Frawley and the other Feds should’ve specifically instructed Claire to not answer Doug’s phone calls, to keep her big, fat trap shut, and to let them do the job they’d been assigned to do; catch/nab Doug MacRay and send him to serve some long, hard time in a Federal penitentiary, where he belonged. As for Claire, she should’ve been criminally prosecuted herself, or at least put on some sort of probation for obstructing justice, by enabling Doug MacRay, a career criminal who was an armed felon and wanted fugitive, to get off scott-free.