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Way Too Many Convenient Occurrences to Make This Work

posted 7 years ago by Elkabong1940
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1. When one goes to a motel with someone you are not supposed to be going with, you don't lie publicly around the pool and leave your room unoccupied.
2. The cuckolded husband can obtain your room key.
3. The policeman does not notice his gun has been switched. One who carries a gun everyday can distinguish it from other similar guns.
4. Your wife's lover is conveniently the investigating officer.
5. The scenario of your arrest goes exactly like you planned it.
6. The bullet you shot your wife with lodges in her head.
7. You are so smart to figure all this out but fail to consider your wife's death would trigger a charge of murder and not be "Double Jeopardy."

This is just a complicated and convoluted plan that it would never work. Reminds me of the great line from "Body Heat." "Anytime you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, there are any number of 50 things that can go wrong. If you are a genius you can thing of 25 and you aren't a genius."

[–] Ithilfaen 7 years ago

1. When one goes to a motel with someone you are not supposed to be going with, you don't lie publicly around the pool and leave your room unoccupied.

Especially when you are both married and leaving in that same city..

2. The cuckolded husband can obtain your room key.

Well, he's a genius, right? At least the writers insist upon it. Obviously though, they are not geniuses.

4. Your wife's lover is conveniently the investigating officer.

I can't believe people just say "he's *the* hostage negotiator" lol. In LA, they must have dozens of them at least.

5. The scenario of your arrest goes exactly like you planned it.

Right down to the cop turning his back on him long enough to switch the weapon, and leaving his weapon behind while attending to the wife, with a supposed murderer at his back.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] hanyo007 7 years ago

Yes, this movie had plot holes, but was still entertaining.

[–] davebuffalo (3019) 7 years ago

1. When one goes to a motel with someone you are not supposed to be going with, you don't lie publicly around the pool and leave your room unoccupied.

Nobody is going to know you at the hotel; everyone there is from out of town. What's the problem with leaving your room unoccupied?

2. The cuckolded husband can obtain your room key.

Cuckholded? Not quite. Cuckholded means that the wife makes the husband watch her having sex with the other guy.

3. The policeman does not notice his gun has been switched. One who carries a gun everyday can distinguish it from other similar guns.

I agree with you here.

4. Your wife's lover is conveniently the investigating officer.

Not shown, he may have called the police and said he wanted to talk to Rob.

5. The scenario of your arrest goes exactly like you planned it.

It's a movie! Just enjoy it!

7. You are so smart to figure all this out but fail to consider your wife's death would trigger a charge of murder and not be "Double Jeopardy."

Can't win 'em all ! Enjoy the movie!

[–] Icecutter (363) 2 years ago

Cuckolded means husband that knows wife is having relations with other man, just that

[–] davebuffalo (3019) 2 years ago

re: Cuckolded means husband that knows wife is having relations with other man, just that

D'oh, my bad! I guess I watch too much porn, because the only definition I know is the cuckholded guy is watching his wife get pounded way better than he can do it, usually a hot white girl by a black guy, and he's a wimp.

[–] Icecutter (363) 2 years ago

You probably have a cuckold fetish

sorry about that

[–] Jones70 (6195) 5 years ago

yeah but I thought they made it work.

[–] hootiehome (409) 4 years ago

Just watched this.

1. When one goes to a motel with someone you are not supposed to be going with, you don't lie publicly around the pool and leave your room unoccupied.
I can see this.

2. The cuckolded husband can obtain your room key.
If she paid and used her card (assuming shared bank accounts), then he can get a key. He "helped" to pay for it.

3. The policeman does not notice his gun has been switched. One who carries a gun everyday can distinguish it from other similar guns.
I took it as he did his research and bought the exact same brand and model of gun. They say he got it only a month before the shooting.

4. Your wife's lover is conveniently the investigating officer.
He did call the station to ask to speak with "Rob". He was told he comes on shift later that night. While there probably would be other detectives/negotiators, as someone previous stated, he could have asked for "Rob".

5. The scenario of your arrest goes exactly like you planned it.
Agree with this one. No way when the suspect drops his gun that he's not taken down right away.

6. The bullet you shot your wife with lodges in her head.
Not sure why this would be his plan. Why would he not be trying to kill her.

7. You are so smart to figure all this out but fail to consider your wife's death would trigger a charge of murder and not be "Double Jeopardy."
Agreed. I started thinking DJ was out the door close to the end.