That's not my point.
Crow grabs the gun and shoots himself because there was no way Anderton was going to do it once he came clean on the whole thing being a set up.
Then I get told, that is not what happened.
That's not the point that you wrote in your OP, to which I replied "That's not what happened". Your point was about [paraphrased] "Crow breaking off the role play so easily when he sees Anderton hesitating".
Here's the text of your OP:
[Subject heading:] If Leo Crow was so determined to have Anderton kill him
Then why did he defuse the situation and spill the beans about the whole thing being a set up? He had John at the emotional pitch necessary to pull off the planned murder/suicide. When he sees Anderton hesitating, why does he break off the role play so easily? And then after asking, "So you're not going to kill me?" he goes and tells him the whole thing is fake.
Well. At that point, no way is John going to pull the trigger.
I'll assume that you (still) haven't taken my previous advice, so I've done the work for you and found some links where you can re-watch the scene. Here's what happened:
Anderton vs. Crow, part 1:
http://youtu.be/8MuZATnrE3YAnderton vs. Crow, part 2:
http://youtu.be/5M4QWD0U8-A(Those two fragments are almost back-to-back; it's just missing a short bit where Anderton is reading Crow his Miranda rights.)
Crow saw Anderton was not going to do it once Anderton made the decision to not kill Crow
right before the alarm on his watch went off, and he decided to read Crow his Miranda rights. Anderton did not just hesitate, Anderton became determined to not give in into his murderous impulses. Crow did not have Anderton "at the emotional pitch necessary to pull off the planned murder/suicide" anymore, Crow realized that the window of opportunity was lost. And that's when Crow started to go a different route and plead on Anderton's compassion. Moreover, saying "If you don't kill me, my family gets nothing" doesn't necessarily mean that Crow was not guilty of Sean's abduction/death.
Where in those sequences did Crow "defuse the situation"?
Moreover, how else did you expect Leo "Loser" Crow to behave in those circumstances?
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Hollastar
8 years ago
Pretty sure that's what we're suppose to believe, but I can think of plenty of creative ways he could have gotten Anderston to pull that trigger. I'll leave my dark thoughts to myself, but I think you're spot on with your reasoning.
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yurenchu
8 years ago
Pretty sure that's what we're suppose to believe, but I can think of plenty of creative ways he could have gotten Anderston to pull that trigger. I'll leave my dark thoughts to myself, but I think you're spot on with your reasoning.
Thanks! Leo Crow was probably not a creative criminal with a dark mind, but rather an unimaginative, stress-avoiding, desperate man who wanted to get "absolved from his burdens" as quickly, smoothly and painlessly as possible.
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