So in the flashback they explain how Letty did not die, and was alive and well, and was not with the car, when it exploded.
However, why did the police think she was dead then, if no body parts were accounted for in the wreck? Was the car even registered in her name?
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but they don't explain that at all.
shareI don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume that Shaw and Braga pulled strings or whatever to get her written off as dead. Especially knowing how much influence Shaw has.
That is the confusing part too and they did her funeral in part 4. They probably had a fake body created as Letty.
shareI am not an American but is it customary in the U.S. to have a funeral for someone, just because the car they were driving exploded, but with no body found inside? A funeral, only a few days later, when there is hardly any time for a search? I mean Letty didn't even legally own the car she was driving, did she? So is a car explosion really enough for a funeral?
So if an American wanted to fake his/her death, all they would have do is blow up their car, and not even have to produce a body? Why hasn't every kidnapper, who did not want their victims to be found do that then?
It just seems like a really huge plot hole, and they needed a better eplanation. Even a twin sister with similar DNA would have been a better explanation.
It is quite a bit of a stretch but by no means is it the most far fetched part of the series. It could've used a bit more exposition when they brought her back in Fast 6. I totally agree with that. This just falls under suspension of disbelief which is something that all of the movies in the series require quite a bit of.
I just watched 6 and if I'm not mistaking, I thought I heard a throwaway line about them burying somebody's body. However nobody seemed to care about whose body it was.
shareI just watched 6 and if I'm not mistaking, I thought I heard a throwaway line about them burying somebody's body. However nobody seemed to care about whose body it was.
I doubt that it was an open casket wake/funeral.
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Wasn't the car Letty was driving, stolen though?
How could the FBI link Letty to the car, when their is nothing about the car itself to Link her to it? Their was no body in the car, so the FBI would just think, that someone stole it, and it blew up.
But they wouldn't have an idea that it was her.
I took that as Braga didn't really know what they buried and didn't care because she wasn't dead. Empty casket of course, but the point is he knew all along. I doubt they had a fake body and didn't check DNA or teeth.
shareInteresting. I don't recall in the retconned flashback whether we saw someone else beside the car who could have had their charred remains mistaken for Letty's.
I guess it's possible - I remember it was quite tricky to tell Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru apart once they'd been flame grilled by the stormtroopers, so perhaps something similar happened here...
Although I guess that raises the question as to how the body was even formally identified as Letty? Maybe Brian just said it was her and that was enough?
Better question to ask is, since Letty wasn't killed, and transported to the hospital in what looks like pretty damn good condition since she has no visible scars or disfigurements from the accident, why wasn't she identified? She had a rap sheet, you don't take someone to a hospital and keep them there for days without running an ID check. It should have been fairly easy to realize she wasn't dead.
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