One detail about this episode always bothers me, every time I watch it. At the start of the ep, Jamie is secretly meeting w/ FBI Agent Anderson. A few minutes later he gets pulled in (while off-duty and in street clothes) to a dangerous situation, for which he gets questioned and investigated by Internal Affairs. The IA rep says that Jamie was seen talking to a red-haired woman shortly before the incident. He sort of insinuates that that's suspicious. Jamie tells IA that the woman was simply a tourist asking for directions.
Fast forward to later in the episode. A woman contacts NYPD and is brought in to Jamie's next 'meeting' with IA. Lo and behold if it isn't Agent Anderson. She says she heard about the investigation and wanted to come forward to say she interacted with Jamie on the night in question. She says she's visiting NYC and wanted directions to where she could buy some knockoff handbags, thus corroborating Jamie's 'story' to IA. That took the heat off him and closed the investigation (not sure why; it was sort of irrelevant to why he was being investigated).
Anyway, my question is: HOW did the woman (Anderson) know what Jamie had told IA? She corroborated his story so perfectly; she HAD to have inside info about what Jamie told IA. His session with them was taped, so most likely Anderson (the FBI) got their hands on the recording. But it's never explained or spelled out; the viewer either simply wonders about it, or has to try to put the pieces together herself... or possibly many viewers never even notice this odd fact.
Fast forward to later in the episode. A woman contacts NYPD and is brought in to Jamie's next 'meeting' with IA. Lo and behold if it isn't Agent Anderson. She says she heard about the investigation and wanted to come forward to say she interacted with Jamie on the night in question. She says she's visiting NYC and wanted directions to where she could buy some knockoff handbags, thus corroborating Jamie's 'story' to IA. That took the heat off him and closed the investigation (not sure why; it was sort of irrelevant to why he was being investigated).
Anyway, my question is: HOW did the woman (Anderson) know what Jamie had told IA? She corroborated his story so perfectly; she HAD to have inside info about what Jamie told IA. His session with them was taped, so most likely Anderson (the FBI) got their hands on the recording. But it's never explained or spelled out; the viewer either simply wonders about it, or has to try to put the pieces together herself... or possibly many viewers never even notice this odd fact.
