Fitz fogs the window and there is a circle drawn on the glass, reminiscent of the airplane scene in Red Eye, and Fitz sees first the back of a blond in a fur coat that could have been June, then he sees Rog, Tom Cruise. I can't figure out this scene unless it is a reference to another movie? Any thoughts?
shareI didn't get it at first because I couldn't understand what Fitz said. Then I watched with closed captioning and after Fitz saw Roy out the window he said, "Always the classics, Roy." So yes, it may have been a reference to a movie (or reference to classic spy tricks, in general).
Mele Kalikimaka
PLOT SPOILERS for The Lady Vanishes and Flightplan.
It's a reference to Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in which the lady (who ultimately vanishes) writes her name in the condensation on the window in the dining car on a train. In the morning, after the lady vanishes, her new acquaintance in the dining car tries to find her, but everyone denies ever knowing her - even though they all spoke to her in full view of the new acquaintance the night before. Being told that she is hallucinating from a blow to the head the previous day, the new acquaintance satisfies her own sanity by breathing on the window where she sees the lady's name appear.
Hence the reference to the "classics".
Now, coincidentally, Flightplan (with Jodie Foster) used the same feature when Jodie's daughter draws a heart on the window of their airplane which Jodie breaths on and reveals to convince herself that she is not going mad and that her daughter really is missing.
But what is doubly coincidental is that Peter Saarsgaard is in both Knight and Day AND Flightplan, portraying a goodie but actually being the baddie.