Question: Has it ever been explained why the girls' mother left? It seemed to be one of the reasons for Kat's surly attitude, considering how angry she was when Bianca wore their mother's necklace.
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Question: Can one find the background music playing in the Amity bar scene where the kids are discussing meeting at the Lighthouse with Mike being hesitant to due to being grounded by his Dad? I tried google search, shazaming and everything to no avail! Sections of lyrics sound something like "only sane things" "let them." but that's about all I could make out of it! Thank you.
Question: When Picard is talking to Guinan inside the Nexus, she tells him that he can leave and go anywhere, anytime. Picard and Kirk go back to Veridian III just before the launch of the missile. Now, why did the Enterprise still end up crashing saucer-section-only on Veridian III, if Kirk and Picard prevented the launch? The shockwave from the exploding star is what caused the Enterprise to crash land.
Answer: The way I remember it was that the Enterprise crashed because of the damage caused to it by the Klingons.
Answer: No, it didn't. The saucer section had crashed before the missile was even launched.
Question: Finnegan put only one torpedo through the hole in the side of his boat. Would only one be enough to destroy the whole cruise ship?
Answer: According to some good old Google Fu, a single torpedo hit could absolutely destroy and sink a cruise ship since they're not as fortified as a warship would be. They're meant to carry passengers, not go to war. Granted, it probably wouldn't be quite as dramatic an explosion, but you could also argue that any other explosives on Finnegan's ship, plus the cruise ship's fuel, could have been ignited in the blast. You also have to factor in that the ship was already heavily damaged from the monsters attacking and was in a more fragile state than it would otherwise be.
Question: Has there ever been any explanation as to why William Afton was murdering children or how their souls got put inside the animatronics?
Question: Zachariah reveals in season 5 that it was planned all along for Lucifer to be released so Michael could battle with Lucifer in an epic showdown that could risk half the world. My question is, wouldn't it make more sense to let Dean know he's Michael's vessel and have Michael either ready to slaughter Lucifer inside the cage or, worse case, be right there ready to attack the very second Lucifer gets released so no innocents are risked?
Question: In the end, after Bill and Jo survived the F5 tornado, why does Bill point out the house that was standing, which the tornado did not destroy? Was that a reference to anything?
Answer: Earlier in the film, Jo says to Bill that he doesn't understand what it's like to have a tornado destroy your house and family, but not another, as if the tornado did that by choice. He even says to her, "Is that what you think it did?" Seeing the lone house at the end made him finally understand why she thought that.
Answer: That a category 5 tornado destroyed everything but the house. It's a million to one shot, but it has happened in real life.
Question: Why did Judge Palmer collapse after watching the video footage of him in the store with Mark Blackwell? Also, instead of picking up the phone, couldn't the deputies have simply called in an ambulance over their radios?
Question: In the launch room when SHIELD loyalists and HYDRA operatives drew their guns on each other, what are both sides shouting to each other as they draw their weapons?
Answer: I hear one person shout, "Put your gun down, move away." There is someone else yelling, but I can't make it out. Maybe "Move it!" or something.
Question: After the claymore, disguised as "the book", is thrown out of the window and then explodes, why do both sides afterwards abruptly start shooting at each other when Carnegie could have ordered his men to flank the house or go around back? If Carnegie was so bent on retrieving the book, he would not have allowed his men to wildly spray the house with bullets (or especially an RPG round) and risk the book being damaged or destroyed in the crossfire.
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Question: When the team drove away from the scene of the truck fire after Severide stopped it from rolling with a fire extinguisher, everyone is staring out the windows and the atmosphere has a quietly melancholic atmosphere. Why is that?
Question: Why didn't M call in reinforcements to help them at Skyfall Lodge? With her being the head of a spy agency, she could have easily requested MI6 or SAS personnel to be quickly flown and parachuted in to their location to assist in the fight.
Answer: It is a major theme of the film that M and Bond must eventually answer for their deeds. Silva's personal vendetta is being taken out on MI6 and puts dozens of agents at risk. Bond and M have decided they are through putting others in peril (Silva's final attack before this decision was on Parliament and put many innocents in danger). Bond seems surprised that Kincade is still around and tries sending him away, but he refuses. It's not really until the helicopter comes in with reinforcements and a heavy machine gun that Bond feels like they might be in over their heads.
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?
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.
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.
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Answer: Although it was never addressed in the theatrical release of the film, an earlier script had the mother writing the erotica novel, and she ran off with her publisher.