Plot questions


How was it that Seth Frank knew that Luther kept his house key in the flower pot?

Other than to give Alison a spot in dad's movie, what was the purpose of the art student encounter at the onset of the film?

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Good question. Maybe he had been to the house before and know where the key was hidden.

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I had exactly that question and came to exactly that conclusion about the house and key.

Somehow, Seth had already found the safe house location. Actually, it's possible that Luther's "safe house" was nothing of the sort - it was his "home," where he kept non-valuable personal belongings, so security and cover weren't high on his list of priorities

We did see his apartment, elsewhere, where he did all his planning and kept his thief tools.

So maybe Seth just looked up Luther's name in the real estate database, scouted it beforehand and found the key.

For what it's worth, Eastwood famously shoots directly from the screenplay with very little change - the Absolute Power screenplay makes it clear that Seth already knows about the safe house before he even visits Kate at the DA's office.

As for the encounter at the beginning, it's part of Goldman's screenplay. It's there to show us Luther's skill, patience and perfectionism. And to emphasize the line, "you work with your hands, don't you?"

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And how did the man hired by the dead woman's husband (EG Marshall) know where to position himself with a rifle to shoot Clint when he met up with this daughter at the cafe?

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