Question: When Axel and Jenny are investigating Maitland's warehouse, and they find the cocaine buried under the coffee, then they're caught by Maitland's men. Why don't they just shoot and kill Axel and Jenny right away?
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Question: Whatever happened to Cadet Karen Thompson, Mahoney's love interest from the first film? Why is she suddenly no longer around?
Answer: They wanted her to return, but Kim Cattrall didn't.
Question: After watching the entire series, in retrospect, would it stand to reason that Ernest Stavro Blofeld himself ordered Le Chiffre to be killed? Mr. White was, in the beginning, Blofeld's right-hand man, so I was wondering.
Answer: Since Blofeld is the leader of SPECTRE, yes, he ordered Le Chiffre killed.
Question: When Bond ordered the Vesper martini while staring at Le Chiffre, was he ordering the drink out loud so as to distract Le Chiffre from his focus or throw him off? I figured Bond purposely did that for that reason, and the other card players following Bond's lead and ordering the same drink only worked to Bond's favor as Le Chiffre became frustrated and knocked off center.
Answer: If that was the point, it doesn't have much impact; Le Chiffre makes a brief, annoyed comment, but his game does not suffer. I've always just interpreted it for what it is: Bond, being an alcohol connoisseur, orders a bespoke martini and the others, deciding they like the sound of it, follow suit. The fact that it annoyed Le Chiffre seems to be an unintended consequence, though, of course, Felix Leiter and Bond then share a moment over it, foreshadowing their later alliance.
Question: How did the shark get to Michael so quickly when he is collecting snails? Jake says they have a 3 miles range on the monitor, but by time Michael is back in the sub the shark is there. How did it travel 3 miles in about 30 seconds?
Answer: Jake always tells Michael that his gear "doesn't crap out," yet later on in the film, we see Michael struggling to stun the shark due to the equipment playing up. It's likely that Jake's claim about having a range of 3 miles was incorrect.
Question: For many years, I've never understood - how did Zack know exactly where to find Mikey to kill him? Mikey, after stealing the bonds in California, would obviously not have told any of the bad guys where he was running off to. Not only did Zack figure out Mikey was in Detroit, but he knew the exact address Mikey was heading to (Foley's apartment) and Zack never knew Foley at this point. Can someone explain all this to me?
Answer: Jenny is the one who got Mikey the job. Presumably, Maitland knows Jenny and Mikey are from Detroit. Maitland must have sent his crew to Detroit to find Mikey, assuming he fled to his hometown. It appears that Zack somehow spotted Mikey and Axel while they were out drinking and followed them to Axel's apartment. None of this is shown or explained, but we can at the very least assume Maitland guessed Mikey would go to Detroit and infer the rest.
Answer: Money talks. A guy like Mikey would have bragged and boasted about what he did to friends and drinking buddies. Plus, how easy would it have been to check planes, trains, and bus schedules? Once he arrived, they would have bribed an airport, train, and bus employee to find out what taxi he took or car rental.
Question: Why does Doug turn on the gas after he crashes the ambulance?
Question: Who is Conrad Mulaney and how did Lonnie steal his candy?
Answer: I always thought that Conrad was the guy with those two girls who steal Lonnie's candy. And Lonnie could have just pickpocketed the candy from Conrad. It's never explicitly stated in detail.
Answer: He's another kid, and Lonnie probably just picked on him and stole some of his candy... it happens.
Question: I'm confused. In Halloween 1978, Lonnie looks like he was a tough bully. In the flashback, he's the one getting bullied. Why is that?
Answer: Looks can be deceiving. Also, Lonnie had backup when he was tormenting Tommy. And bullies can be bullied, too. Plus, there were three of them against one of him.
Question: Is the island shown through the submarine's periscope (Geheimhaven in the movie) a real island (of course without any Nazi base)?
Chosen answer: The Indiana Jones wiki: To film the arrival of the German submarine at the base, the visual effects artists at Industrial Light and Magic borrowed a miniature prop from Steven Spielberg's 1979 film, 1941. The model was floated through San Francisco Bay towards one of the two Marin Islands just off the shoreline from ILM's then-headquarters in San Rafael. The real-world island was later replaced with a matte painting.
Question: Can someone explain the whole thing with Henry Addison and the $8,000? I don't get the link between that and King Benny asking for 8 grand from Rizzo's brother.
Answer: King Benny "sold" Henry's debt to Rizzo's brother, Little Caesar. He then informs Caesar that Henry was the one who killed his brother, knowing that he'd kill Henry, and that he could use the debt as an excuse.
Question: At the party, one of the "dumb" guests says that he teaches at a school in Los Angeles. Why is he apparently "dumb"?
Answer: At the time, American public schools, especially those in large cities, were under fire for underperforming, especially compared to those in Japan. It was just a dig on the public's perceived views on education and teachers at the time.
Question: Near the start, RDN is narrating the casino and says of the count room, "Even I couldn't get in there." Why wouldn't the guy who is in charge of the casino be able to access the count room? Surely he would have unlimited access to everywhere, especially since he was put there by mob bosses and trusted 100%? Who would tell him no in any case?
Answer: It's doubtful that anyone in the Mafia sphere is ever trusted 100%, regardless how capable they are. There would be legitimate concerns that someone might start skimming off the top or collude with others to cheat the bosses. Also, by restricting access and dividing responsibilities, it lessens the suspects if any irregularities occur. The counters likely directly worked for and reported to the mob bosses, not Rothstein, who handled the casino's daily operations, not the the money.
Question: With the fire in the house, they opened up the walls and the ceiling. Why would they do that? Wouldn't that give the fire more oxygen?
Question: What was BioSyn planning on doing with the dinosaur DNA if Nedry had been successful in getting it to them?
Answer: Cloning their own dinosaurs and opening a rival park.
Answer: Agree with the other answer, but it was revealed later that the dinosaurs were also valuable commodities to sell to private parties for personal zoos, big-game trophy hunting, as bio-weapons, cruel sport competitions similar to rooster fighting, etc. In Jurassic World Dominion, small ones were being cooked and served as a delicacy.
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Answer: He was surrounded; Axel didn't want Jenny to get killed in the crossfire. Plus, they wanted to interrogate him and find out how much he knew and if he told the LAPD.