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Tha last scene with Til Schweiger and the tattooed man


In the last scene, is it just me or did anyone else get the impression that Til Schweiger's character knew the tattooed man? It wraps it up neatly if the Til Schweiger character was the brains behind the son's killing, the tattooed man did the killing and then gave up Til Schweiger's character to the vigilantes. Anyone? Anyone?

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I think its just you ;-) and that the former two never met.
Since the Til Schweiger character is suppose to be some kind of profesional hitman, he uses his skill to find and kill the tattooed man. I think he does this because Til grew some sort of sympathy for the main character.

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supposeD to, NOT suppose to

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I thought the fact that he kept calling himself a mechanic indicated that he was a hitman (Charles Bronson played a hitman in a movie called The Mechanic) and he used his resources in the underworld to track down the killer.

It's too bad the father never told anyone what the tattoo looked like, since I'd guess a lot of men have tattoos on their wrist...

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Eh, with his skills I suppose he had all he needed to track him down? :\

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You're comments re: The Movie are spot on, your quote re: The Bible is way off.

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If he knew the killer than why would he show the picture and ask him if he's ever seen the boy if he is the one behind it all?

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Probably so he would know why he's about to be shot.

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agreed, and why would all his injuries be long since healed and he be all smartly dressed ?

If he already knew who the man with the tattoo was then why would it take him long enough to make a full recovery apart from a few logistical problems ?

No, I can't see it.

I could conceive of the possibility that the Schweiger character might have known the original killer, but that there his connection, if any, with the original killer ended. Idle speculation really. :)

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Nope, it's just you.

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It's not just you. That's exactly what I thought as well.

Schweiger's character ("The Man") didn't know what the tatt looked like based on what we saw up to that point (no pictures shown on the board, no description from Archer), and he didn't have any physical evidence to use to track down "Tatt guy" because it blew up in the abandoned complex regardless of how good he might be.

This lead me to also believe he was another participant. Supporting evidence to that theory is Heller saying there was evidence found that led them to "The Man". If this is correct, he was really there, but there was a mistaken identity because Archer never mentioned the tatt in the police reports or to Heller. Therefore, they got one of the criminals, just not the right one that killed the kid.

The echoed question at the end is ambiguous enough to also be taken to mean it's an indicator of which of the several kids that "Tatt guy" might have killed.

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Til Schweiger's character knew the guy and his methods. Why should he know of him? When the two enter the control room for a short moment you can see a picture of the guy and "The Man" on the research wall.

But the last scene itself shows that Til Schweiger's character was not the brains behind the operation. He was disgusted by it himself, despite being a hitman himself.

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its called imagination, somehow The Man found where this killer was, like the cops are supposed to investigate, he probably did as well, using his own resources, who knows how long it took because he was healed, so it wasn't over night, but who cares a bad guy was killed, and one smooth cat walked away lol

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You would be wrong. If the tattooed guy knew the man, and he was the brains behind the killing, the man would have no need to ask the tattooed guy whether he knew the kid and tell him that he almost ruined the man's family.

The man was a hitman, and he tracked the tattooed guy down to do what Eldard couldn't.

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I don't think that The Man knows the actual Tyler's killer. Probably he found him with his abilities of hitman, but the way he relates to the tattooed man makes me think that he doesn't know him!

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I don't believe The Man was the killer, but I do believe he was a professional hit man as others have stated. I also think the cops knew he was a killer and wanted him dead because he was so good they never had any hard evidence to use against him. Remember he told Archer the cops used his pain to get The Man. They had photos of The Man and his family indicating he was on their radar.

As for the "evidence" the doctor and the cops told Archer about, that could have been fabricated. They again used Archer's feelings to make him think they had the right man. Both the detective and the doctor told Archer before their deaths that even if The Man was not the one who killed his son The Man deserved to die anyway because he had killed others. They wanted to "help" a man get out of his torment and at the same time get rid of someone who was too smart for them to get legally.

As to how The Man caught the real killer, he's a pro! He has money (as evidenced by his comment to Archer about not needing his money) and the skill. It wouldn't be hard for him to put the word out he's looking for a killer with a tatt. Someone knew who the guy was and passed the info to The Man. The Man also indicated he had an inkling the killer was going to harm his family so he was helping Archer and, at the same time, protecting his own.

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