Now only thing i did not get this ellie found a bullet at beach near of the crime scene, then she checked dormer's gun at restaurant and understood he has another gun which fired that bullet she found at beach.
Also she find out dormer's statement is not possible and told him about at funreal.
But how this lead her to hap shot by dormer.How did she understood that?
Is this bad writing or am i missing something?
When Dormer shot Hap he had switched from his main firearm which was a .45 automatic (which jams) to his backup which was a 9mm auto. Ellie found the shell case of the 9mm on the beach and realized something was wrong because the story was that Finch shot Hap. Finch dropped a .38 revolver when he left. Revolvers don't expend shell casings like automatics and the gun was .38 caliber. So Ellie found a 9mm shell casing that didn't belong and realized from the angle Hap was laying on the beach that the shot didn't come from where Dormer said. Ellie had studied Dormer's cases in Los Angeles in the Police Academy. She tells him when they meet that she wrote a paper about the Leland Street Murders he worked on. She goes and pulls out her paper from college and confirms in the paper that Dormer carried a backup 9mm auto on him. When they're at the bar she hugs him and feels behind him to see if he still carries that backup 9mm, which he does. She then puts it all together: the 9mm shell casing that doesn't belong, the angle from where the shot came from and Dormer's behavior leads her to believe he's the one who shot Hap, not Finch. If you don't know firearms very well this can be hard to put together.
shareAnd all that was because he pretty much told her that the original statement was a lie. By telling her (without even reading it, knowing what it'd say) to check it again before she forever sign her name on something as significant as that, he pointed her to finding a loophole.
shareSo what was the point of lying about it if he seemed to want Ellie to find out?
I think it speaks for his character that he didn't want her career jeopardised, at risk to himself.
Ellie however looks offended when he doesn't even read it. And she did make mistakes in it because she found the paperwork boring.
I watched that part last night and thought the same thing - why didn't he just sign the statement? The only thing I could think of was that he was hoping that by not signing it or by not bringing Ellie down with him, it might alleviate some of the guilt and help him sleep (her approaching him with the statement comes immediately after, in fact interrupts, the first scene showing the insomnia affecting his work - the flashing lights, slow motion, zooming in on items in the office etc)
sharePerhaps his conscience isn’t ready to sign off on another false statement… remember his guilt over manufacturing evidence to indict Dobbs?
There’s a part of him that wants to be honest and by-the-book, the part of him that advises Ellie at the end ‘Don’t lose your way’.
Dude’s conflicted.