So obviously Smiley and his guys were going to hide Jake's body at some dump after the bathtub murder. How does Alonzo explain that to Jake's family, to lawyers or to the news media? This film is full of plot holes but this one is even more stupid than Jake being part of the plan at all.
shareWhy does Alonzo have to explain anything to his family? He could simply have told the cops that it was Jake's first day, the Roger episode shook him up so he told him to go home to his wife and that's the last he saw of him.
Hey! You're not old enough to drink! Now go and die for your country!!!
Watch it again and see the missing pieces
shareAlonzo just has to say that he took Jake to the station after the Roger incident. They said good night to each other afterwards. Alonzo went home, he assumed Jake went home. And that was that. He doesn’t know how Jake ended up in Smiley’s neighborhood.
shareThis is a bit tangential to the thread, but your mention that "Alonzo just has to say that he took Jake to the station after the Roger incident." Well, sure, he could say that. But that has me on the topic of going to the station at all -- did it in fact happen?
I hadn't seen the film in some time and happened to watch it again yesterday and I noticed a glaring -- what I would call -- continuity break:
After the Rodger incident, Alonzo tells Jake that he'll take him downtown for coaching by the DA, someone who will "walk him through it." Ok. Stop there. Let's back up a moment. Alonzo has called Smiley and told him that he's bringing Jake over (the "keep the bathtub clean" reference), but apparently Alonzo decides to make one more impassioned plea to Jake to be part of the team. After the appeal he offers Jake money, once again. Jake refuses. So how is it going to go over if Alonzo takes Jake to speak to the DA? Not well I'm thinking. So why would Alonzo take him downtown at that point? So I've always assumed they went from outside of Rodgers home to Smileys' (as they leave Rodgers there's a shot of the sun setting -- perhaps to imply that it's going to take some time to arrive at Smileys' since it's dark by the time they arrive).
But here's where it gets awkward, for me anyway. The demeanor of Jake (upon arrival at Smileys') doesn't seem to fit with his state of mind at Rodgers. The lines spoken between Jake and Alonzo don't work either. To go from the scene at Rodgers and the ensuing conversation to that of what takes place as they pull in front of Smileys home seems like a huge gap has gone missing. I never noticed -- or felt it -- before. But it sure seemed like there was a gaping hole there in the narration.
I think we should suppose they went downtown, and Jake spoke to someone who walked him through what to say to the DA. The way we go from dusk to straight nightfall suggests some time passed, so Jake had some time to cool down a bit
It's not like Alonzo and Jake are chummy at Smiley's. Jake asks, in a somewhat annoyed voice, "What's are doing we here now" when they get there (to which Alonzo responds that he's helping an informant's family). When they walk up to Smiley's door, Alonzo and Jake don't say a word to each other
I don't think it matters
If Jake talked to someone who coached him with IA, fine.
But my guess is he didn't, because Alonzo already knows Jake's a dead man
That said, once it's all over, Jake will need help from the Wise Men anyway. Otherwise, he's facing a drug test that'll show PCP and THC in his system.
So it doesn't matter. Jake HAS to talk to the IA coach regardless, making it unnecessary to the plot
Jake will need help from the Wise Men anyway.
Fuqua mentioned the three wise men coda in his commentary (great commentary BTW, one of my favorites)
He took it out because his only real goals were (A) to show Alonzo facing justice and (B) to show Jake getting to go home at day's end
So the real answer is: we're never meant to know. Whatever happens to Jake afterwards is outside the story Fuqua wanted to tell.
That's also why he cut out the scene of Smiley telling him he went "next level" and might one day make chief. Fuqua thought anything alluding to "what happens next" is beyond the scope.
The title is literally "Training Day," meaning it's only about that one day
One important detail - Jake has PCP in his system. So there might arise the idea that he got killed in the barrio as part of some drug deal or something
The deleted scene with Smiley says that he was supposed to burn Jake's corpse on the freeway, where Jake's wife could see