dumb dispatcher?

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2004)

I had a real problem when they were developing the dissension between the federal investigators who believed the cabbie was the actual hit-man and the city cop who was sure another person was involved.
At some point in the earlier scene when they got the cab's license # on the security camera, they called the cab company and spoke to the dispatcher. Why wouldn't the dispatcher, being contacted by the cops and questioned about who the cabbie was, point out that all night he (the dispatcher) had been having odd conversations with that cabbie and that an unknown asshole who refused to identify himself was speaking on the radio, too? And that the cabbie's mother had been looking for him, worried, because he hadn't shown up for his usual visit to her in the hospital? One of the conversations was with the owner of the cab company, but other times when Vince asked the cabbie who was repeatedly asking for him on the radio, he said it was his dispatcher.
I mean, if I were a cab driver and the cops called MY dispatcher asking about me and indicating I might be involved in a crime after all those out of the ordinary things had gone on between us all night, I'd be pretty pissed that all they did was tell the police I'd been working there 12 years. Seems like they might have said, "Hey, y'know, now that you mention it, there was some weird guy in his cab that was talking to me on the radio, and several times when I tried to contact the driver, he didn't respond, which is really unusual for him." But from the scene where the investigators discussed the conversation, it was obvious nothing like that was pointed out, otherwise, there would have been no more doubt about how many people were involved.
I guess it could have been another dispatcher on another shift, but it seemed awkward enough to me that I would have cut Vince's interaction with the dispatcher out of the script.