# Question about Blood Work \*Spoiler Alert\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246 "2002-08-10T04:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/1 "2002-08-10T04:36:18Z")
OK, They kind of breezed past it. Either that or my wife was talking too damn much at the move, and I didn’t hear key dialog. The ‘code’ murder left a code. The kid notices there are no 1s in the code. Is that Jeff Danial’s way of saying “I’m no one”? What does his name “Jasper” have to do with anything? Clint Eastwood says something about figuring it out because of the name Jasper. 😕 😕 😕 Thanks E3 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/2 "2002-08-10T04:37:51Z")
That should read Jeff Daniels’ Please continue… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/3 "2002-08-10T14:58:55Z")
Haven’t seen it; not planning to. I got my fill of the “incredibly meticulous serial killer leaves amazingly subtle clues that can only be interpreted by incredibly amazingly brilliant investigator(s)” genre with _The Bone Collector_. It’s so divorced from reality, you may as well watch two psychic characters battling on the astral plane. But then, I still get mildly annoyed when the lab geek on _CSI_ gets a used Kleenex and comes up with positive DNA matches at warp speed. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/4 "2002-08-10T16:25:25Z")
The code was his last name, not his first. Jasper Noone=Jasper No One There may be something with Jasper as well, but the last name was the big clue. Could you please tell your wife to be quiet? I _hate_ movie talkers with a passion. Even if you whisper, I can still hear you. Brynda, who is too lazy to log in as herself ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/5 "2002-08-10T19:06:01Z")
**Bryan** – I agree about _The Bone Collector_, but I thought _Blood Work_ was more believable (just got back from seeing it). Good performances. ---
**Author:** ![richardb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/96bed5/32.png) [@richardb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/richardb)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/6 "2002-08-12T00:36:23Z")
Just a friendly “bump” because I want to know, too. Yes, it is made painfully obvious what the significance of “the code” and Jeff Daniel’s last name “Noone” is. But as **Enright3** in the OP mentioned, Clint Eastwood specifically makes a comment referring to the significance of Jeff Daniel’s first name, Jasper. It went by kind of quick, but after the movie I was still wondering what the meaning of “Jasper” was, or how (or if) it tipped off Eastwood. I would actually be more impressed with the movie if there was SOMETHING Eastwood’s character figured out before I did. 😃 (That being said, I thought the film was pretty decent. It was a very clever idea, with adequate execution.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/7 "2002-08-12T12:59:49Z")
The “Jasper” comment was a joke. They had joked about “Jasper” being a really bad first name earlier, when Buddy gave away the endin-- I mean, _spelled out his last name for Terry_. 🙂 The later “Jasper” comment was just a reprise of that conversation; you always have to look for the reprise with Eastwood. It’s his way of tying up loose ends. I have to say to everyone who was disappointed by this movie, though: read the book. It is much, much, _much_ better than the movie. They reduced about a third of the book to one line of dialogue (“You’re still the number one suspect to me!”) and did a horrible job of conveying McCaleb’s working methodology. In the book, you really get the feeling that McCaleb was a profiler. In the movie, he could be any number of FBI field agents with insight into the killer mind. ---
**Author:** ![cmburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@cmburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmburns)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/8 "2002-08-12T17:16:59Z")
I saw it yesterday and thought it was pretty good. Not great, but entertaining. Clint was doing his clenched jaw voice so I might have misunderstood, but what I heard him say was that he knew from the last name but he “still hadn’t quite figured out the Jasper part” or words to that effect. Then there’s a shot of Jeff Daniels looking smug and shrugging, and it’s not brought up again. Maybe Daniels was refering to his ghost-like qualities? Oh, wait, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/9 "2002-08-12T18:04:38Z")
As I recall, Jeff Daniels says, “I look more like a Buddy than a Jasper”; and of course he’s doing a convincing job of posing as a harmless boat bum. When I’m 70, and I’ve had a heart transplant, I like to think I’d somehow still have a chance with a really hot Latina woman… ---
**Author:** ![Jon101385](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jon101385](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jon101385)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-blood-work-spoiler-alert/123246/10 "2023-12-09T08:44:22Z")
My only guess is that the name Jasper means jewel or treasure. Maybe the treasure and the end of the hunt. I looked this up because it’s disturbing the way he says it definitely makes you think that the Jasper is a clue too. Obviously it could be nothin, like others comments indicate. I had to check though and see what others say. I really like this movie, basically like anything Clint Eastwood. I love to watch a good slow burn mystery I’ve seen before to fall asleep to, and this movie is one of my go to’s.