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Question: How did Doc originally plan to get from the train and into the passenger seat of the DeLorean? The tires didn't look very secure, so stepping on them would've likely resulted in them falling out of the carrier. Even if by some chance he had made it onto the back of the car, he'd then have to avoid damaging anything like Mr Fusion, etc., as he made his way to the passenger door.

Question: In the opening sequence, a tiered waterfall is shown with water spouting from the top tier. Were there electricity or water pumps for these tiered waterfalls available then?

Question: Has any explanation ever been given for why William Afton murdered children and how he was able to transfer their souls into the animatronics?

Question: Why was Lori so obsessed with killing Quaid/Hauser? Cohaagen explicitly said that he needed him alive so why did she want to kill him so much?

Question: I remember seeing a couple of scenes only once. The first showed the inside of the Ark (as in the scene where the portal opens) with fire coming out of it. The second was a side shot of the Altar where you could see the fire lifting the bodies of the three main villains. Does anyone know where these scenes can be seen?

Big Game

Question: Columbia Records soundtrack album mentions an alternate ending for this movie - Cary Grant is carrying Deborah Kerr over the threshold of the French villa they visited earlier. It is unknown if she can walk, but it is a more hopeful ending. Was this scene ever filmed?

Question: Was Veronica the interrogator only pretending to be a fellow Muslim in order to get Katherine to talk, to make her feel more at ease communicating with her?

Don't Get Mad, Get Even - S2-E21

Question: Where did they get the additional $15,000 (total $30,000) to cheat Wainwright? They borrowed $15,000 from Silky but lost $15,000 in the stage holdup.

Question: Given he's dangerous, why wasn't the Mad Hatter frisked once he entered the GCPD, thus losing the White Rabbit mask he had brought along?

Rob245

Question: What were the police whispering to Father Tom during Mass?

Question: Voller's team is composed of himself, Klaber, Hauke, Gunther and two more goons (Fedora one and Moustache one). What's the name of the last two characters and their actors? (Voller mentions a Messner in the van but I don't know if he's one of the unnamed guys).

Big Game

Question: Did the meeting, where John Aaron states that they have to turn almost everything in the LEM off to conserve the battery power, actually happen? When they realised they had to use the LEM as a lifeboat, I recall Gene Krantz saying, before the meeting took place, to power up "essential hardware only." If you read the actual transcripts from the mission, Krantz tells the controllers "minimum power to sustain life." The controllers and the astronauts would have known this immediately.

Question: When the Japanese baccarat player is brought back to the casino, he has a stack of different colored chips in front of him - what denomination are the dark red chips?

Question: When John Doe is at the shelter and is dreaming about walking up stairs, how is he able to walk on air in the real world? At this point in time, John isn't even in Springwood anymore so the whole altering-reality-through-dreams thing shouldn't work here. Also, how did John get from being in the air to being back on the ground when the security guard catches up to him? And why didn't the guard see John in the air?

Question: In the book, Jack is constantly breastfed. One would assume this is to keep up his nutrition. Is this explained in the movie when he asks for it and she says no, not anymore?

Mad as a Hatter - S1-E24

Question: Why does the Mad Hatter's appearance change halfway through his debut episode? He starts out short with sandy white hair and blue eyes. Later on he's almost Batman's height with blond hair and no blue eyes.

Rob245

Details - S4-E12

Question: Who is the red-headed actress that plays Big Red, the belly dancer that flirts with Chet? She's also on Season 5 Episode 12 as the girl with binoculars, and Johnny borrows them to get a closer look at the guy strung between two buildings. She's got a very distinctive voice, but she's not identified in either episode. Thanks.

MrsSpock

Question: When the team hunts down what will become the hilltop tornado, we see the landscape change dramatically from flatlands to more hilly terrain in a matter of seconds. Was that just to dramatically show the passage of time on the hunt while listening to their radio conversation in real time?

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