1. Art is a stranger... I'll have no argument over this point, the child was adamant "Art IS a stranger"
2. It's safe for single white females to invite fugitives into their home provided they have a verbal reassurance that the fugitive is an FBI agent
3. Buildings in Chicago do not have safety barriers on the roof
4. Cracking a 'master puzzle' is it's own reward
47. If you work for the NSA, be sure to inform your supervisor about "the puzzle thing" - and make sure you include a phone number that no one would simply dial by accident.
48. If you have eidetic memory don't page through the telephone directory of a major city.
50. SIMON IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!
share51 You only get one chance to kick Alec Baldwin in the chest. 2nd time he grabs your boot.
share52. smashing wine bottles is one way to wish someone a happy b-day.
Season's Greetings
53. Glass windows smashing onto your face will kill you.
54. Take your eyes off the baddie and he will take the opportunity you inexplicably gave him to grab his autistic 9 year old quarry.
55. Spray him clumsily with bullets anyway and you can somehow miss the boy and the baddie will release him.
56. Everyone in this movie is very sure-footed on top of really high buildings, except when they chose to jump off.
57. Nancy Cartwright has an uncanny voicetwin.
58. Hospital paediatric wards are easily accessed with no manned stations asking non-uniformed federal agents or assassins disguised with pilfered white coats for their credentials or purpose of entry.
59. NSA assassins fail to understand the purpose of a noise-suppressed handgun by waving it around to scare and pistol-whip around fellow pedestrians.
60. Federal law enforcement agencies defer their law enforcement & custodial powers to a non-law enforcement intelligence-gathering entity in matters of kidnapping.
61. Foreign-placed undercover American operatives communicate with a code only decipherable through the American NSA, alien to the host country's code systems, as if communicating with such a sophisticated code will not arouse suspicion.
62. When going to stage a murder-murder-suicide of a boy and his parents always use a $1,500 handgun (1998 prices) that you plan to leave behind so that BW can notice it.
63. Burnt-out FBI agents like BW are allowed to dress street casual (no suits).
64. Nurses don't read the papers and think that their 10-year-old patient once under police guard still has living parents.
65. Be sure to leave the typewriter ribbon cloth/film in the typewriter when gathering up typed letters.
66. Be sure to dial a borrowed phone loud enough so that a kid behind a wall can yell out each number you press and thus reveal his location.
67. When trying to save an autistic boy and foil the NSA hitmen, ride in their helicopter and jump out and surprise the hitmen and the movie audience.
This is like hooking/catching fish in a small barrel and I did not even hate the movie.
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68. Bruce Willis works better with kids
69. FBI agents use *beep* tier guns
70. Alec Baldwin hates children
71. Multiple submachine guns can't kill you at close range.
72. An assault rifle is more dangerous than said submachine guns, so dangerous that it takes only one M16/CAR15 to kill several heavily-armed FBI agents in full body protection gear, but dozens of submachine guns to kill a man wearing a suit.
73. Injuries inflicted on someone who is hosting a posh party will go unnoticed.
74. Glass takes a long time to shatter.
75. In a gunfight, you're more likely to die from flying glass than from running through a hail of bullets.
They call me the wanderer.
76. If a nine year old autistic kid cracks your two billion dollar impenetrable code, don't just change the code or get the funds to make a new one. Instead kill him and his parents.
77. Women in coffee shops will automatically trust a scruffy looking man with cuts on him.
78. If you are a disgraced FBI on the run for kidnapping a child, make sure to appear in public as often as possible.
79. Assassins won't shoot anyone in a hospital elevator with a few other people, but they will kill a person in broad daylight on a crowded street.
80. If you're the bad guy and you got the child who you've been chasing for the whole movie, don't break his neck or shoot him. Instead take him to a waiting helicopter and give him to the good guy.
81. Simon doesn't see dead people; he just cracks NSA codes.
82. An autistic child will only scream and throw a fit when it's necessary to the plot and not whenever he feels threatened.
83. Despite the Observation Deck being closed for repairs the elevator still opens at that floor for anyone.
share84 you can't tell the difference between men and women in the late 1990s, they all have short hair.
i mostly will not be able to answer your reply, since marissa mayer hacked my email, no notification
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85.Terrorists in 1998 were white americans
86. Undercover FBI agent decides to help rob bank and fight things from the inside
87. Alec Baldwin always has special lighting that makes his eyes look striking
88. A travelling saleswoman who needs money for rent doesn't think to rent out spare room
89. A pills capsule thrown out the window of a fast travelling car can be heard bouncing several times