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I figured out what was up with 'The Guy At The End'.


OK, at the very beginning of the movie, we see two detectives- Thompson and Harcourt- discuss a letter they've gotten from a "chap on Seagull Island" who is "nutty as a fruitcake" becuase he's threatning to unleash some killer bees he's developed and kill someone. They seem willing to dismiss the whole thing.

We're then introduced to all our main characters, and watch Vicki go to Seagull Island where she can't quite figure out who the crazy beekeeper is.

After Mrs. Hargrove is murdered, we get a scene of Inspector Thompson on the telephone, apparently to a superior, saying that he's seen the article about a bee-related death on Seagull Island but didn't think anything of it. He says he'll send Harcourt over to investigate it tomorrow.

We then go back to Seagull Island where Vicki uncovers the whole thing, Manfred is killed by his own bees, and everyone is safe again.

Just as Vicki leaves the Hargrove Farm for the the final time, that's when Harcourt shows up, unaware that the whole case is already over, so the audience has a little laugh at his expense.

Got all that? Good, cause my head hurts. I'm going to bed.

~Brad

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I thought that was obvious.

"When you're slapped you take it and like it!" H. Bogart, Maltese Falcon

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It's just too funny with the music.

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It wasn't clear to me, because I couldn't stay focused enough on this irritating movie to keep track of those details. I thought at the time I saw "Deadly Bees" that the guy in the bowler hat might be some sort of 'in joke' for fans of British horror cinemas that American viewers just wouldn't know about. So this explanation clears THAT up. Good eye. Many thanks (in a low key way, of course).

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Oddly, I was thinking it was a homage to The Avengers or something.

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As did I...

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Okay, now explain how he ended up on the Satellite of Love AND Castle Forrester.

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Before disposing of his fellow Observers, Pearl ordered Brain Guy to send that guy to the SoL to confuse Mike and the Bots. Simple. Now let's get back to repeating to ourselves "it's just a show, I should really just relax."

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Well I can only thank you!

I would have never figured it out by myself.

You are my hero!

=)

Alberto

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So what's the whole point of alerting the police that you're going to kill someone with bees, when you later tell people that no one will suspect you because it's so outrageous an idea to kill someone with bees, but you've made yourself the prime suspect... if the incompetent police force could be bothered to investigate?

Oh, well...

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One more time: "Just think to yourself it's just a show - I should really just relax."

That said, I have to admit that this little incongrous detail was bugging me all day. So I am glad to have someone who was paying attention explain it to us dullards.

Now - would the movie have been any better with Karloff and Christopher Lee in the lead roles? I say no, not with this same script and director and cheese-o-matic sets and the hilarious "special effects".

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"One more time: "Just think to yourself it's just a show - I should really just relax.""

Yeah, but that was a detail in the MOVIE and the movie - one would think - would not just do random weird things to be funny, like Mike and the Bots. The movie - in theory - wanted to make sense... it just didn't.

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I can understand your pre-bedtime headache. One would have to be mighty observant to catch that; I was too busy waiting for the next good line from Mike and the Bots, like Doris coming out into the dining room of the pub to wait on poor Mr. Hargrove and thinking "Mmmmmm...a depressed middle-aged man...mmmmm....it's morning, and he's drinking...mmmmm-mmmmmm.." 😂

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Cripes! I made this post a decade ago, and it's still here!

~Brad

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Crickey mate, you sorted this hodgepodge for us dumb chaps! Jolly good. I'm afraid I almost chocked on my porridge with the excitement (which I hadn't felt since we won the War) but it was nothing a sip of brandy wouldn't cure.

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Twas a mystery for the ages.

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." -Gandalf

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