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(SPOILERS) One thing that doesn't make sense...

posted 2 years ago by Gothor (9)
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So the father catches Simon Pegg doing just about the worst thing someone can do to your wife. He punches Pegg, hauls him up and... takes him for a drive? What? Like, seriously, where the hell was he going? Why not just call the police?

They make it a big point that he only locked Pegg in the dungeon *because* Pegg snapped the student's neck and would have tried to blackmail him. He felt he had no choice.

But if he wasn't driving Pegg to the dungeon to begin with, seriously, where to? You don't drive the criminal to the police department -- you call the police!

[–] TreehuggerKyle (76) a year ago

It seems to me that the father’s intention was to drive Pegg out to the middle of nowhere to kill him. Then they hit the pedestrian, Pegg kills him, Pegg threatens to blackmail the father, so the father bonks him and locks him up.

What I don’t get is, if the father was willing to kill Pegg based on rape alone, then once you add to that murder and threats of blackmail, why no longer kill him? You were willing to kill him for rape, but not for rape and murder and blackmail?

Pegg said at one point he pleaded for the father to kill him, so maybe that part was true. Maybe the father decided that Pegg now deserved something worse than death.