I don't get the part when Doc and Carol are lying in bed and then Doc suddenly realizes that Beynon's guys are coming to get them. How did he know?
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Doc realized Laughlin's wife and kid were always with him at the hotel and they weren't there (he sent them away) so he knew something was up (and it was almost too late since the minute they jumped out of bed is when Rudy had Fran knock on the door as a ruse to start the fight).
shareThat sudden realization on Doc's part is kind of a plothole, since he only finds out that Laughlin is alone because he asked him to carry their luggage up to the room. And, of course, the only bag they have with them is the money bag.
shareThe movie is full of plot holes. Ali McGraw says through the door that her husband is in the shower, so wait a minute, regarding the sandwiches. Rudy would have smashed in the door to take McQueen by surprise in the shower, Rudy being a murderer anyway.
McQueen shoots Rudy on the fire escape ONE TIME ONLY. Most unlikely since, he had plugged him five or six times previously after the bank job and yet Rudy 'arose from the dead' to come after he and Ali McGraw.
Richard Bright the guy on the train who purloined the money bag with the locker key switch on Ali McGraw, goes to the cops, and shows them the money he took from the bag. It was absurd, since Richard Bright was just a grifter, and ten grand or whatever it was, was a big payday and he would unlikely tell the cops about it.
All these things we can chalk up to just plain laziness on the burned out coke head director Sam Peckinpah.
I'm with you, but not sure how much of the actual script writing can be attributed to Peckinpaugh, and how much to Walter Hill. The strangest "hole" in that scene in which Rudy gets his just deserts is actually the fact that he is shooting at Doc with an unloaded gun. After Doc sneaks up on him in the hallway and knocks him out, he grabs Rudy's weapon and empties the chamber, throwing the clip down the hall. So, when Rudy later comes to and immediately goes to the window to take aim at them, he shoots with an empty gun - neat trick. You're right that Bright's character would not have willingly showed the cops the money he took from the bag. More likely, he was searched illegally by the suspicious cops, but it seems yet more likely that Doc would have searched him on the train after knocking him out.
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