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I have a question about Ray's motivation.



The narrator questioned what drove this man to commit murder, hinting at some "grand scheme" which was driving him, but they never elaborated on that.

I have the same question. He was just a thief. Why did he think he had to kill the cop?

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I don't know.

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Well that makes two of us.

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He didn't really have any scheme to commit murder. The scam he was running was stealing electronic equipment and fronting it as his own inventions through a legit electronics company. He only killed people when he was cornered, in order to save his own ass and escape being arrested. It started the night the off-duty cop spotted him casing the electronics store, and snowballed from there as the police closed in on him. He didn't set out to be a killer.

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A blast from the distant past. I only vaguely remember that movie.

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