Ford takes on the personna of his downbeat cop in The Devil's Own, except this time he means it. I get paid to know whose lying. He is a man who works on intuition and finds it hard to cry. She is in the middle of a re-election campaign, closeted with publicists. Everything that surrounds her is artificially enhanced for the sake of the media.
Real life has a tough time getting through.
She doesn't thank him. Scott Thomas is a revelation. Few actors work from the inside out with such delicacy and focus. She did it with style in The English Patient and neurotic energy in The Horse Whisperer. Here, her understanding of Kay is remarkable.