At what point did Alanzo decide to kill Jake?
Pardon me for asking this question, since I think it's been asked before (though I had trouble accessing some of the threads)
The theories I've seen are:
1) He decides to have him killed right after Roger was killed but *before* giving his speech to Jake in the car after the murder. Evidence for that theory is that apparently you can hear Alanzo saying on the phone, right when they are willing out the injured officer "make sure you clean up that tub."
Now, if that theory is correct, why not just go with Paul's idea and have Jake killed at Roger's? Nothing happened after that, and before the "tub" comment on the phone, to make him change his mind. All I can think of is that it's somehow better for Alanzo if Jake is killed somewhere else other than the crime scene. But I don't know why that would be.
2) He decides to have him killed only after his speech in the car, after Roger's. Up to that point, he's still considering keeping Jake alive. But we see nothing that tells us why he would change his mind between them talking the car and arriving at the Latinos.
3) Another theory was that he was planning on killing him from the very beginning. (This theory is also consistent with the "tub" comment on the phone) But that still begs the question of why he needed the Latino gang, rather than just going with Paul's plan of having Jake killed at Roger's.
Theories 1 and 3 raise the question of, Why give the speech at all? What purpose does it serve Alanzo? One commenter suggested that the reason is that he needed Jake to go give a statement to the DAs office, and that he did so *after* Roger's. Once giving the statement, Alanzo didn't need him any longer and could go to have him killed. That's an interesting theory -- but the problem with it is that we don't see anything suggesting that Jake stopped at the DAs office before being taken to the Latino gang. (That would have been really useful information -- watching Jake being willing to make a false report would be watching him cross the line in a big way, and, if that was meant to happen, you'd think the director would want us to see that.)
Thoughts? Thanks!