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(Spoilers) Two questions: Was the daughter definitely pregnant? And...

posted 12 years ago by kElevrA7
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Did anyone else pick up on the fact that the daughter might not actually have been pregnant? Originally she just used it as an excuse as to why she wanted to come home. Then we find out that she murdered somebody putting her original reason in doubt and we are never given any real proof (e.g. doctor's appointment). I'm thinking in the context of the film, the protagonist(s) (costner/hurt) is not reliable because his judgement is clouded by the fact that he is his daughter, hence why he also did not send her to jail (despite Hurt's protestations) and the dream sequence.

The reason she never gives an answer to whether or not she is going to keep the baby is because she will eventually need to say she aborted the baby without telling him when in actuality there was no baby. Or maybe I'm reading into this too much.

Secondly, if Costner really did leave his options re: Cook's character open, what would have happened when Cook killed Costner and returned to an empty apartment? Is this an indication that he was never really going to go through with it? Or maybe he would have left instructions for Cook when he gave him the real gun?

What are your thoughts?

The two of you killed everything I ever loved. **** you both.

[–] doodleboy 12 years ago

i assumed the pregnancy was a lie, but who knows - she apparently faked some morning sickness one day. Surely the mom would've taken her in for a prenatal checkup, too, at some point...

the only reason i can think of for cleaning out Mr Smith's apartment (is there anything Brooks can't do with an internet connection?) - he knew Smith/Baffert would make a mistake at the murder scene (pissing himself, etc) and need to run. Brooks couldn't know the flight attendant would implicate Baffert (indirectly), so he would've had to push the cops at Baffert *after* the fact.

If he really did want Baffert to kill him, he (1) needed to clean out the safety deposit box first, and (2) make sure Baffert wouldn't get caught (b/c then he'd spill the beans to the cops and ruin Brooks's good name).

[–] mikekaraoke23 12 years ago

yea she faked it,if that was my daughter she would of been on the pill/injection anyway surley her mum+dad knew if she was protecting herself seemed like they didn't have a clue!

[–] Scooby52 12 years ago

Um... she was at college in another state. You're a naive person if you think you could keep tabs on whether your daughter uses protection or not if a) She is an adult and doesn't have to disclose that info to you, and b) She lives 1000 miles away from you.

[–] SSteveL 12 years ago

The daughter said from the beginning that she dropped out for a reason other than her pregnancy, so there doesn't seem to have been a motive to lie about it.

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[–] hellobattlefield 12 years ago

Because a possibly sociopathic murderer would NEVER lie, eh?

[–] mikekaraoke23 12 years ago

@ hellobattlefield i agree with ya

[–] Dejay 11 years ago

I didn't think she faked it. I thought the reason she killed the guy was because he got her pregnant and didn't "want anything to do with her". That pissed her off so she killed him. I'd assume if she is like her father she would still need a "rational" motive to kill her first victim, even though she is clearly a psychopath (when she hears about the second killing she happily says "that is good, even if you're innocent, right").
The bit about the morning sickness too made me think that the parents heard her. We can't be sure, but Mr Brooks and Marshal both believe so and they can read the daughter pretty well. Also they would observe her and would pick up on any signs (like not going to doctor for pregnancy stuff).

About cleaning up the apartment, I don't really know. He wanted to make the detective go to the killer (to get her possibly killed) and leave a note. I guess it further implicates Mr. Smith and helps to keep him on the run and Mr. Brooks in the clear.

[–] dbryantvfx 9 years ago

Why put the spoiler in the title of the the thread? Typing spoiler and giving the spoiler defeats the purpose.

[–] Bartholomew (102) 3 months ago

I don't think Jane had any reason to lie about being pregnant. She'd already told her father that college was a waste of time and she wanted to enter the family business.

Brooks emptied Smith's apartment because he couldn't be sure that Smith didn't have copies of the photos stashed there somewhere, whether printed out or on a memory card. If Brooks killed Smith, the police would eventually search the missing man's apartment. If Smith killed Brooks, Brooks wouldn't want his family being embarrassed by evidence that Smith might decide to turn over to police. Taking absolutely everything was faster than searching everything.