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Do you think he would have actually killed her? (SPOILER)

posted 9 years ago by hot_action_ninja
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Near the end when Alejandro is threatening to kill Kate if she doesn't sign the paper, do you think he would of really gone through with it? I kinda wanna say he wouldn't, if only because he mentioned a couple of times that she reminded him of his daughter. Also, for whatever reason, he spared the maid who worked for Fausto Alarcon, which suggests that he isn't a 100% cold blooded
psychopath. He still seems to have some semblance of morality and humanity left inside him.

But on the other hand he DOES commit some downright horrible acts, some of which involved innocent people, so I'm not entirely sure what he would have done to Kate had she not signed. Opinions?

[–] Dark_Star1 9 years ago

Yes, I'm sure he would have killed her. The maid was different - she didn't need to die, and in fact killing her would have served no purpose at that point. But he didn't hesitate for a second to kill anyone he had even the slightest reason to kill, and if she hadn't signed he would have definitely had a reason.

[–] sydnee_man 9 years ago

I agree with Dark Star. I think he would have killed her but I think he would have felt bad about it. His work was important and needed to continue. He even told her to move to a small town where you could do everything by the book. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.

[–] JoeSchmoe007 8 years ago

I don't know if he would.

Another related question: why did she sign the paper? Because she believed he would kill her and did not want to die? Or because she realized this was the "right" thing to do?

Another reason to doubt he would kill her is that she pointed a gun at him from the balcony. Just before he actually shot her in similar situation (knowing, however, that she was wearing bulletproof west) but this time he just stops, looks at her and does nothing knowing that now she could kill him if she wanted to.

[–] mshipp11 8 years ago

If she had killed him in the parking lot at a minimum her career was over and she's probably going to prison. Gunning down an unarmed man from a balcony at a distance of 50 ft or so is called murder.

Alejandro would surely have killed her if she hadn't signed. He turned to face her when she pointed the gun at him because he knew she couldn't bring herself to shoot him (she's not a wolf). He didn't do anything to her for pointing the gun at him because he knew he had won. No need to do anything else.

[–] ipeedaily 8 years ago

Alejandro would've been the biggest badass of a hitman ever if indeed he DID kill her even after she signed it.....that would've been epic but would not have played well (plus....even though he's a stone cold killer he seems to garner sympathy from all that has been done to him and I think most viewers were pulling for him....would have lost that aspect if he offed her).

One careless thing I did notice.....he should've had a copy of her signature to compare when she signed it...she could've signed an entirely different name/way in order to make it a fraud....I was half expecting that is how it would wind up.

Also, he could have further dismantled her gun or taken the mag/bullets....but that would've negated the next scene of conflict between him and her.

[–] Smokey_T 8 years ago

Of course a lot is reading beyond what was on film.

Perhaps they were originally going to kill her, bute convinced his bosses he could get her to go along. They might have killed her afterwards anyway, because you wouldn't want to kill her immediately. That looks suspicious. And perhaps he would or would not have known that if they had.

He wasn't afraid of being killed by her because he didn't think she would, he'd understood her all along. He wasn't afraid of dying because who the better to judge him, or shoot him than her.

There was a presumed kinship between them, or paternal bond, and it was that relationship that underpinned his not shooting her in the tunnels, trying to avoid shooting her in the apartment, and not believing she would shoot him.

Ultimately he was protecting her by forcing her to sign, and he was protecting her by telling her to get out, and if she shot him she was betraying a kinship he perceived.

If she shot him she was going to have to be a wolf.

A lot of this is about patriarchal power. He was her daddy, he protected her, guided her, and she had to make a choice to kill her daddy, or own that role she had occupied through out the film.

[–] NotASpeckOfCereal 8 years ago

Oh yes, he would have killed her.

Another related question: why did she sign the paper? Because she believed he would kill her and did not want to die? Or because she realized this was the "right" thing to do?

It not that it was the right thing to do, but because she didn't want to die for nothing. She knew it would be an empty death because she had not yet told anyone about the illegal aspect of the operation (Reggie might know, but he didn't actually witness it, so his testimony would be hearsay).

If she had somehow arranged it that her untimely death meant that the truth came out (as is so often a Hollywood trope in these kinds of dramas), then not signing it would have been the right thing to do, even at the expense of her life <insert suspenseful cue here>.

All of that is assuming that she would have been a noble hero and not just a normal person that wanted to live regardless of what would be the right thing to do, like most of us.

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[–] Kent_Kainer 8 years ago

Forcing her to sign the paper was some kind of having her shut up.
Remember, she wanted to tell everything she saw to... whomever.

If she hadn't signed then killing her shuts her up too.

So yeah, I think he would have shot her.

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[–] O_Danil 8 years ago

Absolutely.

[–] Vytis 8 years ago

I suspect he killed the maid later.
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