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What the hell was Agent Gibbs thinking?


All the terrorists are dead, no one knows that he is the traitor, so why would he give himself away like that in the end? It makes no sense.

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It's because there was only time to rescue one more person from the plane. Gibbs was going to kill everyone else on board, then rescue himself before the plane crashed.

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But how would Gibbs explain that he's the last man out of the plane?

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Simple, he tells them that the President insisted that he go first much like he did with the 3 people who left before him.

"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine

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He would just say William H. Macy was the traitor. Gibbs would say that he was able to kill Macy, but not before he shot the President.

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Plus, he blew his chance to just kill Marshall in the doorway when they struggled at first. I mean, he had his gun to the President's head.

However, then he had to piss off the President, with that "I'm getting off this plane" line.

Of course, Marshall snapped, surely thinking, "This plane?...IT'S MY PLANE!!!"

"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."

- Toy Story 3 (9/10)

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"Stay on my plane!"

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

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He was just a plot device to get the terrorists on board in control, after his betrayal at the beginning there is never any interaction between him and the terrorists, the writer should have had Oldman betray and execute him first but backed themselves into a corner by keeeping him alive

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In the original script, he was revealed to be a long-term sleeper agent reactivated for this mission. For some reason it didn't make it into the final cut. Would have made more sense than a traitor on the presidential detail.

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