Innella State of Play

Corporations, acting as individuals, can undermine a democracy. This is greatly shown in the scene where Cal McAffrey and Della Frye take Dominic Foy to a hotel for questioning. Dominic Foy works in Public Relations for a company called Medal of Freedom, which is a subsidiary company to Point Corps, a military company that is currently under investigation. Foy tells Mcaffrey that Point Corps hired a woman, Sonia Baker to work as a spy in Congress. A Congressman from West Virginia who is also getting paid by Point Corps recommends Sonia Baker to Congressman Stephen Collins as an employee. Baker is hired as an investigator in the case of Point Corps with regards to illegal activities. Collins was not aware of the fact that Baker was a spy and as their relationship began to grow, the two had an affair. Soon Baker falls in love with Collins and decides to stop spying on him. Midway through the interview, McAffrey leaves the room and calls Collins, asking him to come to the hotel so he can see the recordings of the interview. When Collins comes, McAffrey shows him a part of the interview that reveals that Baker was a spy sent by Point Corps and she was also pregnant with Collins’s child.

This scene shows that Point Corps was trying to undermine the investigation into their controversial actions by hiring a spy that could be partly in charge of the investigations. If Baker had not fallen in love with Collins and decided to quit spying for Point Corps, Point Corps could have easily foiled any plans that Congress had to stop them from their illegal actions. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that Baker was killed by a former soldier that Collins had hired to follow her, but it is not clear whether she was killed for Collins’s sake or if Point Corps had hired this man to kill her. “State of Play” really makes one wonder if these types of scandals are going on in the government today.