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So many questions

posted a year ago by allure (1)
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1. During the ending scene as Jaime Pena (the detective) is recounting the day of the accident to Alex Ulloa, he makes it his mission to emphasise the fact that his wife died because Alex fled the scene, as opposed to calling for help. This will sound like a very stupid question and maybe I missed something but why was that such a point of emphasis? Couldn’t Jaime have called for help himself? He even mentions how they waited an entire hour inside the car until they were found? What was stopping Jaime from calling for help himself?
2. What in the world was the role of the hired detective Javier Alonso? Did Alex’s wife hire him or not? Was it all made up by Jaime? Is the detective even a real person? I am SO confused. If he was made up, what was the reason? Who took the photographs of Alex and Eva? Jaime also says during his monologue that Mayka knew everything? I am fully lost.
3. Who hit the guard with the car? Was it Jaime or Eva? Or both…?
4. Did Jaime and Eva plant the evidence in Alex’s car? Did Jaime move the body from the morgue to the woods? And why specifically there?
5. Was Jaime behind all the things that were happening at the morgue? (The evidence suddenly appearing inside the morgue with the TH-16 bottle, the fire alarm, the letter inside the bathroom etc). Are we supposed to believe he was leaving the scene every time, doing the deed, and coming back all whilst being noticed by no one?

[–] ProfessorPlum (69) 4 months ago

Just watched this last night, so I'll do my best here

1. I think the policeman and his daughter were also injured and trapped in the car after the crash (they were up against a wall on the driver's side, and the car was smashed on the passenger side) just not fatally injured. they had to wait to be discovered and rescued while they sat alongside the wife who was slowly dying.

2. I think the detective was not real - Jaime and his daughter produced the photos and recordings of Alex cheating themselves, and planted the detective paperwork in the dossier of information from the wife. I believe that Javier Alonso may have been a false front created by the detective . . . when the regular police search his office, his computer is gone and his records are gone as if he has fled, but he may never have existed in the first place.

3. I think the guard was randomly run down by a random passing car. Scaring him at the morgue was certainly part of the plan (to emphasize the missing body and pull Alex into the morgue for questioning), but him getting hit him with a car I think was just a sad accident. It does allow Eva/Carla to pretend she is getting information from the nurses though.

4. Eva plants the evidence in Alex's car - the shovel, the shoes, and the balaclava, among other things - while Alex and his motorcycle are with Jaime at the morgue. Jaime was the one who took and moved the body to the woods, then presumably left the evidence somewhere Eva could get it.

5. I think yes - only he and his daughter are in on the scheme, and she is out busy planting evidence and making/taking phone calls from Alex all night, so Jaime is doing all of the things at the morgue. Especially moving the box of belongings around, planting the toxin, etc.