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Did Tom egg Red on to a duel to the death?


In the finale, Tom takes Red's #1 truck and makes a threat. It's like putting a chip on his shoulder and daring Red to come after him. When Red does pursue, he mistakenly drives Tom's sabotaged #13 truck, disguised with Gino's #3 badge. I just wonder if Tom is setting him up. Did he suspect the brakes were bad?

g-winchester in another thread wrote an excellent sequence of events that explains how Red ended up driving the sabotaged truck:
"Just before Tom meets Lucy in the garage, he sees Tub apparently working on his truck. After Tub leaves Tom looks under his own truck and finds a bolt which we can assume came from Tub tampering with Tom's brakes (presumably at Red's instruction, so Tom would crash.) TOM IS DISTRACTED WHEN LUCY ARRIVES so he doesn't check where the bolt has come from. Gino then swaps his and Tom's plates around (13 and 3) before he is run off the road while driving with Tom's number plate. Tom then takes Red's truck instead of his own, so in the quarry at the end Tom is in Red's truck (1), and Red is in what he thinks is Gino's truck (3), but is actually Tom's (13) with Gino's number on it. So Red ends up mistakenly driving the truck which Tub has sabotaged but doesn't realise it until the brakes fail and he sees the number 13 ignition key."

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Guess it was a case of poetic justice that Red got the sabotaged truck. Excellent old classic movie..better than most of the junk they put out now.

BCNU

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