Question: When Mills and Somerset are investigating John Doe's apartment Somerset comes across the hand of the Sloth victim in a jar. I'm wondering how exactly John Doe was able to use that hand to place fingerprints on the wall behind the painting. He either cut it off recently, or cut it off a year ago and kept it until he needed it. The second is highly unlikely, but even if the first case is true, is that hand capable of giving clean, traceable fingerprints? Because the hand is decayed pretty badly.
jshy7979
15th May 2022
Seven (1995)
27th Jun 2014
Seven (1995)
Question: What happened at the crime scene at the start of the film when Somerset asks the other police officer if the victim had kids? (Before Somerset meets Mills).
Chosen answer: A woman shot her husband. The other detective on the scene says to Somerset, "he's dead, his wife killed him."
Answer: It doesn't have anything to do with the main plot of the movie. It's intended to show two things. That Somerset is quitting the police force, and that he values humanity and the world around him no matter how much he may want others to think.
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Answer: We don't know that John Doe left the fingerprints at the same time as he murdered the Greed victim. He's put a lot of work into each killing, and has meticulously planned each victim and detail, so it's possible he left the fingerprints behind the painting long ago, when the Sloth victim's hand was still, for lack of a better word, fresh.
But long before he killed the greed guy? That doesn't make sense.
Brian Katcher
Yeah, I don't buy that answer either. I'm thinking Victor's hand was cut off not too terribly long before John Doe killed the lawyer. Victor was still alive, so his hand would be able to give usable prints. Then John probably put the hand in the jar after it had served its purpose.
jshy7979