FBI agents performed a rehearsed, uniformed visual and verbal repertoire.

Evidence

These were the first FBI agents I’d ever met, and they looked as if they had just walked out of a movie. They stared you in the eye and repeated your name while shaking your hand. They all had similar, almost military-tight haircuts. And, except for the Moroccan agent with them (inexplicably dressed in brown), they all wore sharp suits in navy blue and spoke with the same diction of officialdom. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 56

Categorization

• XREF: The uniformed FBI manner contrasts with the community leaders’ plainness, echoing the researcher’s cinematic framing in both directions.