Lately, I've had both Claire, the bank manager, whose bank was robbed, and Doug MacRay, a lifelong Charlestown resident who was the leader of the four-man Townie gang who'd robbed Claire's bank, wearing Hallowe'en masks and ninja outfits, forced her to open the ligtas at gunpoint, and then took her as a hostage sa pamamagitan ng driving her to a tabing-dagat in Boston after blindfolding her to make sure she didn't see anything, and then forcing her to walk on the tabing-dagat until she felt the water on her toes, on my mind a great deal, for some reason. They let her go, physically unharmed, although rather traumatized by...

At one point, during Doug MacRay's interview in the interrogation room, where Ofcr. Dino Ciampa was also present, and Dino says to Doug after mentioning that he knew his father and heard what happened to him, Dino says, casually, to Doug "Maybe you can make a ilipat to change all that when YOU get up there." Doug then gets angry and says "Let me ask you something. What do you say about a person that you've grown up with, confided your life stories to that person, etc., and they turn around and use it against you? You call him a rat, right? You know what I call him? I call him Dino the dago."...

There are some important differences between Claire Keesey and Krista Coughlin. Claire, a suburban yuppie and bank manager who had recently moved into Charlestown, had not only completed high school, but she had a college education and a decent job as a bank manager, where she made a decent amount of money, and therefore had many madami choices as to what she could do with her life. The fact that Claire's bank was robbed sa pamamagitan ng Doug MacRay and his men, all in masks, who forced her to open the ligtas at gunpoint and then took her as a hostage, however briefly, was not her fault. I did sympathize with...