# Quick Sixth Sense Question (SPOILERS)

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**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sixth-sense-question-spoilers/347738 "2006-03-09T20:37:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sixth-sense-question-spoilers/347738/1 "2006-03-09T20:37:41Z")

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I’ve seen this movie several times and a thought just occurred to me. How did Malcolm know to go to Cole? He wasn’t a patient of Malcolm’s before the shooting, right? And then of course after the shooting nobody was referred to him, so how did he know about Cole?

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sixth-sense-question-spoilers/347738/2 "2006-03-09T20:44:06Z")

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The same way the other dead people found him. Not very specific but that’s one of those “just a given but not explained” things. Note that even in pictures, the kid had glowing things around him. Dead people could probably spot the glow even without taking a picture. (Unless the glow was a dead person hanging around.)

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**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sixth-sense-question-spoilers/347738/3 "2006-03-09T20:52:23Z")

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You know, I thought about that too, but the first time we see Malcolm waiting for Cole, doesn’t he have a notepad with notes written about him?

WAIT - I just had a stunning thought. Could those have been his notes about the boy how grew up and shot him? Wasn’t it mentioned in the movie that _that_ boy and Cole had the same gift/curse?

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-sixth-sense-question-spoilers/347738/4 "2006-03-09T21:05:35Z")

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Yes, that boy had the same ‘problem’ as Cole but Malcom ‘misdiagnosed’ him.  
But I think the notes were about Cole. He was kind of stalking him if you think about it. Maybe those notes were just his observations.