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This character tells her boss “it matters” in response to a sexist comment he made during a scene in which this character is stared at by cops as she asks them to leave the room. In one shot, this character enters an elevator in a gray sweatshirt, (15[1])where she is surrounded by (15[1])a group of much (15[1])taller men dressed in red. (15[1])In a prime example of using cross-cutting for misdirection, an armed man rings a doorbell in (*) Illinois as this character enters a house in Ohio. During a phone call, (10[1])this character is asked whether the animals she heard being slaughtered as a child have stopped screaming. The sound of a revolver hammer being cocked alerts this character to the location of a serial killer stalking her in the dark using night vision goggles. For 10 points, name this FBI trainee, the Jodi Foster-played protagonist of The Silence of the Lambs. ■END■

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