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What was the point of the security guard calling?

posted 13 years ago by horRorFreak889
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I liked the movie, but didn't understand one thing:

There is a scene in the film where the security office calls the house and the daughter picks up. She eventually says she was having a party and begged the lady not to tell, the lady agrees. We then see the lady cancel the request to visit the house. A couple scenes later, a security guard arrives at the house saying they received a call.

Sooo what was the point of showing us the previous scene if the security guard was gonna show up anyway?

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[–] balehead_number_one 13 years ago

Cam Cigandet was listening phone call whole time. That´s why girl did everything to stop the police from coming. So it makes sense.

[–] wel_da_war 12 years ago

I think what he/she meant is that if you're working at a security company and you call a residence where an alarm has been triggered, and then you call the house and only the daughter comes to the phone, sounds upset and possibly at gunpoint, and the girl who actually has very little or no say so as to the goings on of the security company since she doesn't actually own the house, literally begs and pleads not to send police or any other type of authority figure to the house, it seems kinda fishy. Almost like a red flag that would warrant at least sending an employee of the company to check on it, even if they didn't sent any kind of official law enforcement.

As for the "oh we were having a party thing", it makes no sense because if you're partying so hard it sets off specific emergency "omg we're being robbed/held hostage" alarms then it doesn't make sense to take a teenage girl's word for it that nothing's going on other than a mild party that slightly got out of hand, especially considering her father pays the bill and situations like this are one of the many reasons he installed the security system in the first place.

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[–] Borg222 13 years ago

Just thickens the plot. Such tension too. Oh wow!

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[–] chrisw328 13 years ago

The most ridiculous part of the alarm company calling is that after the first call when one of the robbers answered and pretended it was the wrong number. The alarm company would not have called back, but would have immediately notified police.

[–] Hiragana_Kanji 13 years ago

That is the one part I hated , alone with the lady on the phone telling the little girls if you can not talk to me for some reason let.. And she cuts her off she is giving her a way out .

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[–] nginx 12 years ago

He pretended it was the wrong number to make the lady believe that nothing was wrong at the Miller's residence and she must have accidentally called in the wrong number.

But on the other hand, security companies should have better ways of handling "security" or else what's the point? Anyone can break in, put a gun to the resident's head and force him to say everything's fine. And the old cliche of cop showing up and getting a bullet to the head is getting old real fast.

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[–] tmbaker100 12 years ago

I could ALMOST believe the company letting the girl off (although in reality they would still dispatch police because if the event that something was happening they would face liability for not acting) but when the guy picks up and said...were gonna have to talk to you later...no way they don't send police

[–] mclovin6009 12 years ago

Another point to mention is that on the call centre monitor you can clearly see a shattered window tripped the alarm.
Avery tells the dispatcher not to respond as her parents will be very angry.
The parents will eventually find out about the glass so what difference does it make.
Dumb plot point.