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Would Anna have been taken into custody?


even with the house set on fire, the authorities would eventually find the bodies (of the rapists/pedophiles/etc Anna & her brother had killed) stored in the basement freezer, so wouldn't Anna be arrested for those murders?

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Yeah, she definitely would be. Even though she had the right idea, the law still frowns on vigilante justice. That said, she'd most likely spend the rest of her days in a mental hospital, rather than A jail cell

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Well there are sirens at the end of the movie, so I think its reasonable to assume that she's going to be taken into custody.

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I assume that those sirens we hear at the end of the movie are from fire engines, seeing as her house is on fire, and all. The other sirens will come later, after they find all the dead bodies.



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The sirens, if fire engines, started before she lit the fire. Precognitive fire department?? Perhaps!

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True..

That made me chuckle..
I suspect Dan called the police from his car after she let him go.
I don't think she called the fire apartment or the police herself.


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the fire may make it difficult to get evidence. they'd certainly be able to establish that the basement contained dead people but would they be able to tie the murders to her? since her brother was the one behind the killings (nicely foreshadowed in her talk to Vance about his brother) it's unlikely they had any victims more recent than his illness, so it would be difficult to establish whether or not she was involved in the killings or if her brother was behind it all with her ignorant of it


I was actually half expecting a scene at the end with Dan helping her to establish a story of the two of them defending themselves against the intruders and claiming he was being held hostage when Anna talked to Charlotte. though it's difficult to imagine her letting her dead brother take the blame for the other murders and once safely away from her Dan might have been less willing to alibi her, so it probably wouldn't have been a satisfying ending

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