The affair.

Tommy Lee Jones's character is having an affair with the Maria Bello character the whole movie. What a potential minefield that would be in real life. That could blow up in the faces of both of them. I don't know what that company's policy was on inter-office romance but that could be disastrous.

Maybe his company going down the tube was the result of them having an affair. Bad Karma? What goes around comes around? You will pay for it sooner or later? His wife apparently supported him from his humble beginnings to success --- and that's the way he repays her?