So did she sleep with him?


She definitely is going in for a kiss before that scene cuts away and then she goes out with Rydall for hours.

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No. I think Rydal was just using that expecting Chester to admit to the murder in a fit of rage.

Come at the king, you best not miss.

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One thing is for sure, the man did not trust his wife.

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when he enters Rydalls room, I think he smelled his wifes scent on the sheets on the bed

made you look xD

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Yes, Chester definitely was trying to see if he could smell his wife's scent on the bed sheets. But did he?

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I thought he did. Chester ran his hand across the bed, sniffed his fingers then as in a fit of rage squeezed the hell out of the foot board railing. Also Rydal later confessed that he raided Colette's honey pot, perhaps lying but seemed a genuine confession to me. http://imgur.com/NLYKODJ

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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Chester ran his hand across the bed, sniffed his fingers then as in a fit of rage squeezed the hell out of the foot board railing.
That's the part that is so confusing. What did he smell?

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He smelled her female lower unit secretions which has a quite distinctive aroma. Kind of like three day old ripe Sea Bass. Chester probably smelt it before he entered the room.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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He thought he smelled evidence of her being unfaithful, but that doesn't mean that what he really smelled was actually what he thought he smelled.
My question there was rhetorical. 
Did the writer and director want us to think she really was unfaithful, or just that he thought she was unfaithful even when she wasn't?

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Did the writer and director want us to think she really was unfaithful, or just that he thought she was unfaithful even when she wasn't?


My take was the writer/director wanted the audience to believe she was unfaithful and gave us several reasons to make us think so.

1)She was attracted to Rydal who was younger than Chester and more her contemporary.

2)When she goes to Rydal's room there is a cutaway scene where she was obviously going to lock lips with him.

3)Chester upon entering the room finds a drinking glass with lipstick on it then sniffs the bed seemingly recognizing her scent.

4)Rydal later confesses to Chester that he boned Colette. (Yes, he might have been lying but I doubt it.)



He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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But there may have been someone else there earlier in the day, before she showed up. That's how I look at it, anyway.

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It was intentionally written to be ambiguous so there is no right answer but my feeling is no, Rydal didn't sleep with Colette. The "admission" only came when he was wearing a wire and trying to get a confession from Chester and it very much felt like a tactic to get him angry.

Plus Colette didn't seem like the sort that would drop her panties so easily. She had, after all, stayed with Chester through the whole swindling business so she clearly valued the marriage.

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Completely agree with this.

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also agree with this. he never slept with her. she flirted with him, only bc he was useful to her/them.

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