Why did the Jackal kill Lamont? - The Jackal (1997) Discussion

[–] Dauw 10 years ago

Probably because he liked to work alone, Lamont had outlived his usefulness, was pretty annoying and was becoming a distraction. Hell, he was played by Jack Black, I really can't fault the Jackal for wanting to shut him up.

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[–] siamsa69 10 years ago

Lamont was greedy! He asked for more money for the blueprints. He was trying to pull one on the Jackel, but that just pissed him off and he was killed for it.

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[–] koffeenkreame41-1 9 years ago

Lamont was greedy! He asked for more money for the blueprints. He was trying to pull one on the Jackel, but that just pissed him off and he was killed for it.

^^This. Had Lamont not ask for more, Jackal probably left him alone.

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[–] layton59 9 years ago

I had trouble believing that the Jack Black character could put together a cheap Lego toy, much less a sophisticated gun mount.

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[–] Mr_Wolf_80 9 years ago

Jack Black's character was hilarious, but such a dumbass. I mean: you don't try to blackmail a pitiless and cruel killer. tsk
Of course, Jackal didn't kill him at once because he needed a target to test the gun.

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[–] eddysl12 9 years ago

The original agreed price was $40,000. Lamont wanted $100,000 more for the plans and his silence. Even if he gave him the extra $100,000, Lamont could have then demanded say $200,000 more. There was no telling when the extra demands would end.

As far as a bonus, $5,000 or even $10,000 would not be unreasonable if the device / mount worked perfectly but $100,000 extra for a device that is a bit off?

Lamont should have given him a discount of say $5,000 for the less-than-perfect workmanship, not demand $100,000 more.

Lamont basically demonstrated that he could not be trusted.

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[–] lokis_angels 9 years ago

I believe you are overthinking it. The Jackal basically took out everybody that could become a threat to his identity. The less than perfect workmanship (if so) and asking for more money/ blackmail attempt only added to the best choice of what to do with Lamont, but I am sure his fate was sealed already.

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[–] sillyspaghetti 9 years ago

I usually like Jack Black and I hated Bruce Willis in this (usually a fan). But I was glad when Lamont got it!

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[–] Sidewindr 9 years ago

He did not kill the woman in England who forged all of his identities ..

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[–] silverr8c 9 years ago

The woman was honest and played it straight and she lived. As eddysl12 pointed out Lamot got greedy and paid the price. If he was not killed he would try to blackmale him

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[–] George (605) 5 years ago

Exactly. He had it coming for him. Just like the wheelchair guy in Out For Justice whom was killed by Ritchie. He asked Ritchie what was the story with him and Bobby just as the police arrived. Of course that would make Ritchie think that the guy in the wheelchair sold him to the cops. He had it coming for him. Just the same with Lamont here He had it coming for him.

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[–] qfal 7 years ago

Exactly. In the original Jackal movie he did just that and I was waiting for it here. So, this was a kinder, gentler Jackal. But that guy pushed him too far with the money demands.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20308) 6 years ago

In the original movie, it was the forger not the weapon smith who tried to blackmail him. He let the smith live.

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[–] lostsok0523-654-279444 9 years ago

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That Lamont tried to cheat him and lied about correctly sighting the gun angered him, and so he had him "motion test" the weapon. Even then, however, he just had him hold up the cigarettes. He wasn't actually trying to kill him. When the gun was still off, and blew off Lamonts arm, he just killed him because it was past the point where it was really a question.

Had Lamont not tried to extort him for more money--and then lie to him--I suspect The Jackal would not have killed him.

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[–] stevekaczynski 8 years ago

No, he wanted to kill him, he was just toying with him first with the "speed test" stuff.

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[–] dhmason6155 7 years ago

Lamont could have run the other direction, or into the woods.

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[–] George (605) 5 years ago

Yes he did. But that was because Lamont was blackmailing him.

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[–] stevekaczynski 7 years ago

I think the Jackal was packing a handgun and would just have shot him with that if Lamont had tried to run the other way.

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[–] dhmason6155 7 years ago

Yeah, the minute the Jackal said "run", Lamont was dead meat, but worth a try.

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[–] stevekaczynski 7 years ago

The woman who created his fake ID or IDs (who seemed to be living on a houseboat in the Thames) did not try to blackmail him and did a competent job. I think her charge for the passport was 350 quid and he gave her 500, so she was not asking a huge price either. He was not obviously moving around with an automatic weapon at that stage so he could easily afford to let her live. She would have known he needed fake IDs but knew nothing of an assassination plot. Lamont was more of a security risk but leaving a trail of dead bodies is itself a security problem for the Jackal. I found it a little odd that the Jackal was relying on someone obviously slipshod like Lamont in the first place, whether or not he planned to kill him from the beginning.

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[–] dhmason6155 7 years ago

That's a surprisingly low price for ID's. Especially at the level of the game the Jackal is playing in.

Right, dumbasses like Lamont are a security risk, but so is killing him. I guess that's the dangerous game a professional assassin plays. Lamont may have been the only game in town, and the Jackal was on a deadline.

I would think people in his world would already be "in the know" and would just conduct business as usual. Whoever supplied his drop safe with arms, money and ID's, for example. Also the people feeding him the intel about the robbers in the garage. Also the ID lady, of course.

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[–] stevekaczynski 7 years ago

I wondered whether his safe box was set up for this job or whether it was a precaution he had taken previously. The intel about the (Polish?) robbers trying to hijack his gun may have come from Terek. How they know about it is not clear - because a senior Russian policeman assisting the FBI is one of Terek's moles, he knows about the progress of their search but would not know about the hijackers. It appears to be Terek who tells him that "an Irishman" is part of the pursuit team.

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[–] dhmason6155 7 years ago

I think he set up the box on his first recon into the states after he commissioned the gun mount with (the doomed) Lamont.

It's strategic to have supplies stashed in key locations as a safety measure. He was probably heading there after the op went south.

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[–] PaladinNJ (20308) 6 years ago

He didn't get the gun from Terek. He purchased it from an online (Dark Web?) source. The hijackers were probably tracking it from his initial purchase waiting for an opportune moment to grab it. But they underestimated the Jackal. In the movie they only showed him nailing the one guy, in the original script he took out the other two as well. No loose ends.

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[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

That Bishop guy

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