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i don't get the hospital thing


why did john lithgow put the books on his foot and bust up his stitches?

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that baffled me too, but as the film went on the only thing i could think of, is that lithgow's character didn't want the bullethole in his knee to heal correctly, so that when he escaped and killed jesse then shot him in the knee, with the dental records already switched, it made it look more definite that lithgow was killed in the crash

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That confused me too, thanks.

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The only way he could have used his knee again was to force it to bend, so he used the books to bend his knee. It was the only way he would have been able to escape and get his revenge.

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You are correct, in order to speed up the process of his rehab, he needed to regain 90 degrees of flexion for functional activities.

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He had found something to live for and decided to start his own "Physical Therapy" right then and there, is how i took it when i first saw that scene!!





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Duh he was forcing the bullet in his scar to be push out by.

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LOL!

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Aside from his form of PT. I think the pain was an issue too. The lenghts he would go through to exact his revenge.



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