She's doing something really weird - she wants to interpret at some point, but instead she's taking any Fed job she can get since she doesn't think she'll be trusted otherwise because she's middle-eastern. So...she's going to spend years at a job that has nothing to do with her background.

I dare say she's gotten stranger yet.

Red line: probably they are rated based on how timely they are in each station. Whenver people do insane things at work, I credit it to some bizarre performance standard.