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Police stopped searching for the Tax guy!

posted 14 years ago by wildamnesia
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Why didn't the police continue to search for the tax guy? Did they forget about him? The dog walker gave the police his location and the location of the people who stole the truck, so why did they just drive by the place at the end of the movie!!!?

Answer me that.

And the couple NEVER mentioned their kid's name in front of the tortured guy. It was mentioned in flashback but only in private, away from his ears.

I can only assume this movie was tested in front of an audience of dim-wits.

[–] markos-9 14 years ago

They have also mistaken their son's killer for another prisoner. I mean, I bet they would have recognized that man even if he was in a carnival costume! And not only they did not recognize him, but the tax guy was by diabolical chance in the same car with a child killer! And not just that, but he looked a lot like the killer too! Ha Ha!
All they're doing is trying to convince that revenge is bad. Which is a matter for discussion, no doubt, but it is not just revenge here. It's revenge for their murdered son. One could expect such matters treated with more tact.

[–] ry-the_stunner 11 years ago

The guy's face was bloodied and mangled from the car accident, so it's not difficult to understand how they may have misidentified him.

[–] debro 14 years ago

the police said (or tv?) that they wouldn't possibly survive more than 3 days in those woods, so probably they just stopped looking for the tax guy because they assumed he was dead...

i believe that the "dog walker" actually saw the real killer and pointed the police at him, he totally bought the mom's story, so he didn't tell anything about them

and as was stated before in these forums, the tax guy probably heard the name on the news, or from the real killer himself... who knows

[–] eh-earle 14 years ago

Yeah, that...and i can't imagine that a tax evader was the police's absolute top priority while a child abductor was on the loose! Also I'm not sure that the guy with the dog bought her story, either...but I wouldn't go accusing someone I found in an abandoned house of harbouring a fugitive right off the bat. He probably thought they were a couple of hooligans making out at worst

[–] Shoghi 14 years ago

I bet that every single escaped prisoner sentenced for tax fraud would not be on hourly news for days. They would be wanted, sure, but you can bet that no all-out manhunt would be issued against them. They really hunted the child killer and didn't pay that much attention to the guy who got 18 months for tax evasion.

[–] MrBelette 14 years ago

"It was mentioned in flashback but only in private, away from his ears."

It seems that the walls were rather thin and they were always yelling anyway

[–] philipmartin2 12 years ago

I figured they didn't show us Ben's name being mentioned until the flashback after the twist was revealed. That way, when the murderer shouted out his name, it appeared he was still the murderer because he knew it.