Continuity mistake: When the main character goes to check the place where the dead bodies lie, after having seen the red light flash, the rope above the supposedly dead body is still swinging. If you keep watching it you can see that it keeps moving with the same frequency.
Nightwatch (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Erich Anderson, Anais Evans
Inspector Thomas Cray is behind the murders, he used to be the previous nightwatchman with the necrophillac tendencies. Katherine twigs it's him when he whistle's 'THIS OLD MAN' which she heard after she stumbled across the murder scene of Joyce.Deputy Inspector Bill Davis is beaten to death with a baseball bat by Cray who leaves James Gallman handcuffed to an overhead pipe. In order to free himself, James ends up cutting his own thumb off. Just before Cray can perform DIY labotomy on Martin and Katherine, he gets two bullets in the back followed by one in the throat from James.
More mistakes in Nightwatch
Katherine: Oh my god.
Martin Bells: This just doesn't happen! This is not happening! Cray, why are you doing this? What the hell are you doing?
Inspector Thomas Cray: Stop asking for the "how" and "why" Martin.
Question: Who is the man in the picture in the office of the hospital? Is it supposed to be Nick Nolte when he was young, working as the night watchman?
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Chosen answer: It is intended as a nod to the original 1994 version of the film, which supposedly featured the same picture in the watchman's booth.
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