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* The NSA comes out of this as fops but for one thing. Marty's only real crime is his "prank" hacking when he was in college. However, he's framed for capital crimes. By the end, he's granted his wish and the government clears his record. The [[Fridge Horror]] comes in when you realize that the NSA never learns what he actually did and what he was only framed for. As far they know, Marty really ''is'' guilty of all of those things, and they covered it up. (But don't let that ruin the otherwise perfect karmic justice.)
** To be fair, Marty's 'prank' was wire and securities fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is definitely a major set of warrants you'd really want to duck. As for what Marty was framed for later in the movie, the NSA almost certainly knows that's a frame job by the time Abbott catches up to them. The murder of a Soviet consular official with diplomatic immunity on US soil is bad enough, but it turns into a major diplomatic crisis if the US government can even be credibly suspected of having had the killer in its hands and letting him go. If he honestly thinks Marty whacked the guy, his only option that both avoids the doomsday clock inching closer to midnight and keeping his secrets involves blowing Marty's head off and then telling the Russians 'Well, we got the guy who killed your ambassador, but he resisted arrest'. *cue knowing smiles and approving nods from the Russians* If Abbott's willing to just do some polite blackmail instead, then he already knows the stakes are lower than that.
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