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Oak Continues Investigation

posted 16 years ago by dumas-4
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What struck me as implausible is that Oak did not agree wholeheartedly with the higher ups when they concluded that the junkie was responsible for Calvess' murder. Oak spent months trying to steer the investigation away from a junkie cop suicide, involving a medical examiner and signing all the reports himself. It seems that he would be happy to have it all wrapped up in a neat little package, with the "murder" now pinned on a dead man. The widow would still receive her benefits, etc. Why he would investigate further and hatch an elaborate plan to force confessions from innocent men who knew of his presence at the scene, while his bosses were content to wrap up the investigation in a neat little package that fulfilled his goals is beyond my comprehension.

[–] kairingler 16 years ago

now that you mention it,, that does make sense,, i think you're right,, but then i guess we wouldn't have a movie.
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

[–] dumas-4 16 years ago

If they omitted the scene where the Captain and the other "Brass" were going to pin it on the junkie, the movie could have easily continued to its denoument without the leap in logic.

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[–] Walls Of Jericho 16 years ago

Yeah, I didn't buy that either. Seems to me he got what he wanted, which was a cover-up of the suicide. At the very least, I don't think he would have thrown such a huge fit about it.

[–] eglaiaf 15 years ago

He really loved his adopted daughter, and the way i see it, he wanted revenge from the guys because "they turned him into a junkie..".

Taking his character into consideration (attacking handcuffed prisoners etc.), it seems quite in character to me.

[–] Maerlyn 15 years ago

agree with eglaiaf. oak seems like an extremely aggressive guy. someone who doesn't want to stop until they guys he detests so much are dead...

[–] Sphinx871 15 years ago

eglaiaf is correct. At the very end before Oak died he said himself "they might not have shot him but they made him a junkie" or something similar, meaning his hope was to pin the murder on the two dealers because they "killed" him however indirectly. Having the whole case wrapped up against that innocent dead guy got in the way of this plan, so naturally he would have opposed it.

[–] Mr_McLaurel 15 years ago

He didn't do that because he genuinely wanted to find the people he deemed responsible for Calvess' death - the dealers who hooked him on the junk in the first place.

What's the Spanish for drunken bum?

[–] sschind 12 years ago

If it had not been for Tellis not believing it Oak may have gone along with it since it would have accomplished one of his goals (the pension and benefits for the family.) Since his partner did not believe it and knew that Oak did not believe it would have been difficult to convince him (Tellis) to go along with it.