Maybe i'm simplifying the plot a little to much, but if two US Supreme Court justices are murdered, much less in the same evening, obviously the FBI, CIA, Police, etc. are going too look into the decisions they agreed on, Darby and Callahan discuss this in the beginning of the film. Is it just me, or did the brief seem a little too obvious? So obvious that it's hard to believe a law student is the lone investigator that could uncover it?
nope you are perfectly justified in calling *beep* on the storyline. Besides why kill the two lawyers in the beginning they had no concrete evidence except for the papers of a law student. That is not hard proof if anything they should have let them live. In killing them they are only drawing unwarranted attention to themselves.
shareI haven't seen this movie in awhile, but I just finished the book a few days ago. The justices were not killed because they knew any information. They were simply killed because they were liberal and supported the preservation of the marshes/swamps in Louisiana (also where the pelicans lived, hence the name). The man in charge of the big oil scheme which depended on bulldozing/ruining the wetlands paid Khamel to kill these two justices off during a conservative presidency, so two new conservative justices would be chosen to take their places. In the long run, these new justice would vote to let oil be drilled on the wetlands. Darby managed to find the connection between the seemingly dissimilar justices and found who would want to kill them and prosper from their deaths. Again, I don't know if the movie is exactly like the book (often times details are left out, and it's much harder to follow), but this was how the book was written.
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