I did not really understand him doing this. She could have survived, so what would he be really accomplishing for taking his own life. I did not get that he and the wife were truly in love. Did he do it because he felt he was responsible for her being shot. I also wondered why so little was said about them as lovers.
shareI didn't get that either. Felt contrived and poorly motivated.
shareNotice how there story was told, He never even had dinner with her before. I get that he was going down as a cop but it was a leap for him to be charged with murder. Just did not seem as if he knew or loved her at all. We certainly know he did not even know who her husband was. He must have been very unstable before the murder witch they never went into.
shareSurely he would have shot Crawford instead of himself - or, if he couldn't go on and had to shoot himself anyway, you'd think he'd want to take Crawford with him. It looks like he could easily have done so, on the steps.
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Nunally wasn't seen shooting himself, he was only seen dead on the stair landing. Just before the shooting we saw Crawford retrieving his gun from evidence. Crawford could have shot Nunally with that gun, which was identical to Nunally's. Since the trial was over it didn't matter anymore that the gun had never been used, and since it appeared to be a suicide they probably wouldn't do forensic tests to determine which gun the fatal bullet came from.
share(What's a "Spole?" If you happen to see this, you might want to change this to "Spoilers.") I do agree that Nunally's suicide was far-fetched. He didn't even know the woman's last name! And didn't he have kids? While I think they made it pretty clear that Jennifer was essentially brain-dead, they should have tossed in a heartfelt declaration of love for her on his part to make it even semi-believable. (And this guy was supposedly a hostage negotiator?! Someone whose job involves talking people out of, you know, committing suicide?!)
bleak, do you really think that Crawford shot Nunally? I thought *at first* that this might have happened, but sometimes what *isn't* addressed in a movie tells you all you need to know; as Nunally's death was called a suicide and the movie rolled right on, I accepted that it was.
That Crawford's gun was waiting for him as he left the courthouse after an out-of-the-blue acquittal, and not sitting in an evidence locker somewhere where it would likely remain for weeks, wrapped up in bureaucratic red tape, was patently absurd. As was the suicide scene - no one screaming, no one anywhere near the guy trying to render aid, no one rushing toward him, no sign of police or bailiffs stopping potential witnesses, or securing the gun! - in a courthouse?! - just interested parties looking at the body from a distance as passers-by casually go about their business, leaving the building.