2 MINORITY REPORT questions (SPOILERS)

Cafe Society
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  1. Where did Lara get the eye from?

  2. MOST IMPORTANTLY: How did Lamar set John up? All he did was put photos in a room and tell Leo to be in that room at a certain time. No clues leading to the room. I can put photos in a room and tell you to show up, and that doesn’t guarantee cops will arrive. Or is just a paradox of knowing the future: only reason John went there was because he had seen himself there in the future. It was a sort of loop that he had to fulfill. Of course that flies in the face of what Agatha kept telling him: that he could always make choices.

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This one’s easy. When she’s talking to Lamar there’s a box with all the personal items that were on John. Presumably the eyeball he was carrying was in there.

The second question requires more thought than I feel like giving it right now :).

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I thought about the personal effects box. But wouldn’t that draw someone’s interest? Just imagine the cop putting that togther: “OK, wedding ring, watch, eyeball in a sack . . . Oh well, not my job to think. I just pack the box. Lessee here, Ok, wallet…”

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4

Lamar probably figured (correctly) that as soon as Crow was on board with the plan, if it was going to actually work, Anderton would eventually find him in exactly the way he did. After all, this is dependant only on three variables – that Anderton would kill his son’s murderer (which Lamar was pretty confident about), that Anderton would learn in advance what would happen (again, not a toughie given the fact that he was the chief), and that Anderton would have the moxie to escape long enough to find Crow. Fortuntely, it’s a nearly foolproof plan, because if any of these variables fail, then the thing doesn’t ever get set in motion at all. Therefore, Lamar makes the deal with Crow. He waits. If nothing jumps off, no skin off his nose, he just tries a little harder. Maybe he has Crow meet Anderton at some function. Then he waits again. If nothing happens, he has Crow start to stalk Anderton. He waits. If nothing, Crow sends Anderton a picture of him and Sean. Lamar waits. (Etc.) The beauty of the plan is that, while each active step increases Lamar’s chances of exposure, the first one that could possibly work is guaranteed to work, automatically limiting Lamar’s risk as much as logically possible. The only problem was Lamar’s fundamental misunderstanding of how seeing one’s fate can cause you to change it, and he can’t be blamed for that lack of foresight (ha ha), as it was shared by everyone else in the society.

Anyway, the fun bit is that I’m writing this while sitting in the building where the climactic scene will take place 55 years from now (just two floors away, actually). :wink:

–Cliffy