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The key word: Almonds spoilers

posted 13 years ago by interrogatemc
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Read a few posts and people, I think, are not really getting the end. In an early meeting with the FBI, Kraus's character says the liquid in the suspect's kitchen smells like almonds. The FBI blows this off as flavoring. In the final scene of the movie, the broadcast mentions cyanide. Cyanide is known for having a "bitter almond" smell. This is perhaps the smartest thing in the film, that the writers would drop that off so much earlier but complete the tie right at the end, unnoticable to most.

[–] interrogatemc 13 years ago

Oops, didn't think I liked this movie but I like the ending more and more. I did notice the golfer in his eye at the end, indicating that he was not actually watching a newscast, so where from where did the report come? Got me there and I have no answer, just seems like they worked fairly hard to work in the almond smell if all for naught. That would be a complex bit of foreshadowing.