All movie long, he could sense her from a distance. But when she was 10 or 20 feet away, looking right at him through a hole in a wooden fence, nothing. Feh. She should have poked his lazy eye out.
He stopped while she was looking at him, cocked his melon head, then walked away.
There's another thread in here about him that is hilarious. About how they had to cut out hours of his stating the obvious dialogue. In this case, it might have been something like, "She...was here. Earlier, she wasn't. Then she was. Now...she's...um...not. I need a cheeseburger."
I wondered why he couldn't sense her there too actually, but then i thought seeing as she did some sort of mind manipulation of Ben Kingsleys character later on in the film to get him to command them all to go back to the club, could she have done the same to Forest Whitakers character to just distort his abilities?
Mind control? Ok, I guess I totally missed any mind control type things. I just figured Xavier told them to go back there because it was all they had to go on.
And he didn't "sense" her right above his head when she was hiding in the sewer pipes.. right above his head! "She's here... over there I think. No wait, she's over um....aaaaarghh!" Would've kicked this stupid movie into overdrive.
I wonder why he couldn't/didn't sense the other girl in the car with Sil.Wouldn't he sense to people in the car and notice one woman was gagged and tied up?