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The police officer

posted 13 years ago by WigForWigs
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This part of the movie involving the police officer really lacked common sense. So, they sent an officer over as they obviously traced the call which reported, that someone is trying to commit murder. The officer doesn`t come back, doesn`t report, that everything was alright or whatever, but instead doesn`t return at all and in the morning the operator tells, that they already had sent an officer over there yesterday. Yes, right, they really don`t care much, that the officer hasn`t given any sign or isn`t at work, who has been sent to investigate a possible call that reported murder. And as absurd as that might be, the killers also leave the body of the husband outside, of course they took the police car away, but instead leave a presumably dead men on the porch not even having the slightest thought, that the police might come looking for the officer. This part ruined the whole movie for me.

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[–] merickson83 13 years ago

I knew the husband was going to end up being alive the moment I saw that he'd been left lying in the doorway all night. There's no reason for him to still be there other than to have a happy ending where he wakes up.

And the police officer seemed more like a scared security guard on his first week on the job than a real cop.

[–] joeyjmpoff 13 years ago

Yes the not sending backup after a disappearing cop was stupid. And the cop didnt seem to good at his job. I wouldve grabbed my shotgun & went to work.

[–] infiniteknot 12 years ago

I was coming to this board to say the exact same thing. The 911 operator just says, "Uh yeah lady, we already sent someone to check on that."

And why would the police only send one cop to investigate a frantic woman's call that people were trying to kill them?

Stupid.

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[–] gmansi 12 years ago

The movie was Ok for me until the cop arrived....

[–] NeckTye 12 years ago

I agree, that was really dumb. And this might be far-fetched, but you could make a tiny argument that someone with the police could have been in on it too at some point. I don't really know lol.

[–] fakeslashdash6 11 years ago

For the record, the cops might have thought the 911 call was a prank.
Lord knows there were real life calls to the police that officers didn't take seriously - not even sending someone to check out.

So sending the one cop didn't bother me.
As for why no backup showed up... That was beyond stupidity.
And the fact that the guy on the phone said "oh yeah, we sent somebody to check"
Without any worry seem to indiciate the killers didn't even bother faking his death or something.

I was sure that the movie will turn into them just stalling until backup shows up. Apperantly... not.

[–] AlexSefton 11 years ago

I mostly agree with the OP. But I just thought this through, and I came up with some possible explanations for this.

First possible scenario, the bad guys had managed to hide the police car and the dead officer's body. Used the radio in the police car to fake a false alarm report. If this is the case, the movie should have shown it, though, to avoid people criticizing the movie in the first place.

Second possible scenario, they'd hide the police car and the body. After they've stabbed David, they tried to search for Amy but instead found another police car on the road heading to the motel. So, they intercepted the 2nd police car and killed the officer(s), too. This probably wasn't shown in the film because the director wants us to go through the experience from David and Amy's point of view only.

Another possible explanation, the length of time between when Amy saw David getting stabbed until she wakes up again was only one or two hours. It was probably already past 4am when David got stabbed, she dozed off (or maybe she was just lying there crying quietly, I'm not sure because it's hard to believe she could fall asleep after witnessing her husband murdered) for a couple of hours tops. Sun rises at 6am in some parts of the US. Now, I'm not sure, but maybe the police department in the area only sends other units to check, after an officer hasn't reported back for at least two or three hours. Because they probably only have like 3 officers in the whole department.

[–] Reva_C 9 years ago

Yeah, I assumed the last one....that actually when the policeman goes out it's closer to sunrise than you think time wise and it's not actually been that long. It's be a long, eventful night after all.

~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

Back - up! What back up?

I loved the fact the 911 call centre send an unaccompanied near pensioner - status cop to investigate a reported attempted murder and then no back up when he doesn't report back.

[–] Archnenna 10 years ago

I couldn't agree more! I was once threatened with violence by a household member and when I called the police, two officers came. They always come in two. This in the movie was a murder report and they only sent one? Seriously? That cop didn't come by himself; he was sent there and the person who sent him must have realized he didn't report back nor did he appear at work the next day. Major fail. That always annoys me in horror movies.

[–] bobbydallas (8525) 3 years ago

the copper bit only worked for the first few minutes while we are unsure if he's working with the motel.
when it was clear he wasn't....... it became stupid as hell

[–] darthleather2011 9 years ago

Once they killed the cop, the bad guys should have just took off.

Why waste time still trying to kill those two when they know that eventually more cops are gonna come out looking for the missing one?

How were they planning to get away with all this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55W6ihUY-c
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[–] CrazyJim2004 9 years ago

The whole thing seemed so deliberately detached from any real logic. Outside of nobody being sent to check up on the cop who went to answer the 911 call, I couldn't help but wonder why nobody bothered checking up on any of these other people who had been murdered or how they were able to run this video-selling racket, regardless of how off the beaten path they were?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ywLWkHaQ6A