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the bloody coffin scene - contains spoilers

posted 8 years ago by daveandcorie
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The scene with the mini, bloody coffin makes no sense.

Robert receives a small package in the mail which his daughter hands to him. When Robert takes the package to his kitchen sink he opens the package to find a small, coffin soaked in blood.

We find out soon afterwards in a following scene that Roberto Alcaino confirms that this was Pablo Escobar's calling card.

If this was sent by Pablo Escobar that would mean that Roberts cover was blown as it was sent to his home address where his real life wife and family live. It would have meant that that the drug cartels would have found out that Kathy Ertz wasn't Roberts wife at all, and that Evelyn was.

An undercover agent would not be living with his real wife and family during such a massive operation. This also calls into question when he was being followed whilst out jogging near his home. This also would have been an indication that his cover had been blown. Why wasn't Robert and Kathy set up in a false home together at least to keep continuity of their operation?

This was a very poor part in the writing of this film.

Also it was never made clear who killed Ospina on the dance floor. Ospina upon seeing the false part of Roberts brief case reveal the hidden tape recorders would have been singing that to his partners in crime poste haste. Also at the beginning of the film those tape recorders appeared to have been hidden within the case itself not behind a flimsy buttoned down flap!

Disappointed in this film over all I found it rather weak.

[–] ccheck123 8 years ago

i agree.

[–] Pro_California 8 years ago

http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah290/Pro_California/P.O.%20Box_zpsbzefdi8p.png

It was sent to a P.O. box so his cover wasn't blown. He sets it down as soon as he gets home though, so I can see how you guys could've missed it.

[–] Suey_Ciders 8 years ago

Many people don't catch details when viewing movies, I'm guessing that having their heads in their a$$es might be a bit distracting.

[–] joshaguess 8 years ago

What Pro California said.

[–] r5a 7 years ago

I don't think it was sent to his home address. Pablo might have just sent it to his "office" at the Airline which then got forwarded to his home.

The guy following him in the car was later revealed to work for the CIA. They might have just seen Robert in character around persons of interest and therefore they were following him to see who this new character was. I assume only a very select few people in Customs knew about Robs undercover op and they probably didn't tell the CIA about it or any other agency for that matter.

Ospina was likely killed by Rudy Armbrecht because of Ospina embarassing them at the meeting.

[–] _Sergey_ 7 years ago

Explained correctly already (sent to a po box, not home, or sent to his fake identity address and forwarded), but there's one thing that's impossible depicted in that scene. The package made it's way in USPS system without the coffin breaking and leaking. Then he throws it on some table and it breaks. Not possible. It would have leaked long before.

[–] Dutch4012 (1) 3 years ago

The bloody coffin was delivered to the fake office that was set up as a front and the car that folllwed Bob was eventually traced to be a CIA fleet veh.

[–] MartyMoose1977 (94) 2 months ago

The Coffin was sent to his P.O. Box not his office or home address. what was fake as hell was the package made it all the way through USPS sorting and delivery but never leaked until just as he's bringing it into the house?