Question: Who is in the photograph on the liquor table in the beginning?
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Question: Why is it that the grudge doesn't kill the old woman living in the house?
Question: Was it ever established in the show whether Hyacinth could drive or not?
Question: How does Coraline's mom know which key unlocks the door?
Answer: She picked the strangest key for the strangest, or out of place door.
Answer: It was the weirdest key she could find.
Answer: It was probably the only key that she didn't put there - the entire cupboard might have been keys for the house she put there and that had magically appeared.
Question: What was the reason behind Samantha Mulder's abduction?
Answer: She was taken when the Syndicate was formed and the aliens decided to take a member from each family in each different Syndicate as collateral. Samantha was chosen to be the one that the aliens took because her mother just couldn't choose between her two children.
Question: Why could Malcolm not open the door with the red knob?
Answer: In Malcolm's spirit-mind, which was in denial, it was somehow stuck and simply wouldn't open. But in reality as shown in the final twist, it's because his wife had blocked the door with a heavy desk, which Malcolm was "blocking out" and refusing to allow himself to see.
But he did get into the cellar. The first time he tries to open the door it immediately cuts to him walking down the stairs. How did he get in if it was blocked?
He walked through the door. Or he projected himself to the other side. Since he is in denial of his own death, his mind corrected the experience, creating a memory of unlocking and opening the door.
Answer: You can see that Malcolm is reaching for his pocket every time he is not able to open the door. He simply thinks he or his wife locked it.
Question: Where were Toomes and the gang after they were fired?
Answer: At a large building, which is presumably a storage/office space Toomes owns or rents for the purposes of his salvaging/disposal job, since he'd need significant space for equipment and whatnot. It later became his villainous lair.
Question: Why was Tom bringing the football team to his house?
Answer: Because he needed a way to coach the team while also watching his kids.
Question: Wouldn't the end of the fight be an obvious draw as soon as the second judge's score was read in favor of Antonio? Michael Buffer didn't announce a split decision before reading the scorecard so as soon as the second score was read in favor of Antonio then a draw was imminent.
Question: Harry was reminded by Ron of another Gryffindor Quidditch player who sat under the tree they were revising under and rumpled his hair but who was that? Was it James?
Question: When Robin Hood goes to Skippy's house as a blind beggar, does he say, "Did I hear someone say a birthday today?" or "Did I hear someone sing a birthday ditty?"
Answer: He said "Did me old ears hear someone singin' a birthday ditty?"
I thought it was "today", not "ditty."
Question: Why had the replicants tried to break into Tyrell Corporation? How come Roy Batty knew the corporation existed at all?
Answer: Replicants appear to know about their origin and lifespan, and even if they didn't, Roy is highly intelligent and motivated, and could easily have determined Tyrell's role in his creation through various means. The reason they broke into Tyrell Corp was they wanted the company or Tyrell himself to extend their lifespans, or to work out the means to do it themselves.
Question: How did Harry and Marv know that Kevin would escape through the back door of the Plaza Hotel while waiting for him?
Answer: It's most likely a plot hole, but one possible explanation I can think of is that perhaps Harry and Marv observed from afar the scuffle between Kevin and the concierge and deduced that he would try to flee the hotel from a door that wasn't necessarily being watched by the hotel staff.
Answer: It could also be because the Wet Bandits were planning to break into the hotel through that door rather than the front entrance and just got lucky.
Well, when Kevin got out the door, Harry and Marv were standing as they were waiting before they captured him. Besides, Kevin has been in that hotel a little longer.
Question: Re the song "My Name Is Tallulah", what is the significance of North Carolina as a training location?
Answer: It was just a way of saying where she was raised and how she got to be so good. Even though Prohibition became a federal law in 1920, North Carolina enacted their own prohibition in 1908. During these 12 years, some in North Carolina started bootlegging by driving to Virginia or South Carolina to buy alcohol to bring back to the state. I see it has her training as a gun moll or bootlegger.
Question: What happened to the two French-speaking girls on the beach in the ending of the first movie?
Answer: While we know that the two girls are French-speaking, we don't actually know that the game landed in France. The two girls might have been on holiday, which would mean that the scene could potentially take place anywhere in the world. Given the ability of the game to distort space and time, it is highly likely they had their own game and similarly tried to throw it away.
Answer: Honestly... it's pretty common for sequels to ignore the final scene/stinger of the previous film. It happens because the filmmakers decide to take the sequel in a different direction. For example, "Species" ends with rats being infected by the alien DNA, and this was going to be the set-up for the sequel... but then "Species II" ignores this and goes with a different story. Another example is that in "X-Men: Apocalypse," the Essex corporation was established and was supposed to be a big threat in the film "Logan " but then they took "Logan" in a different direction. You also see this happen a lot in horror movies that end with a final jump or surprise kill. I personally use the rule of thumb that if a movie ends with some sort-of final jump, or a "the adventure continues" set-up, I don't necessarily view it as canonical until a sequel confirms it, because sequels so often ignore the final moments of the previous film. I'd chalk this up to this movie just sort-of ignoring the final scene of the original.
Answer: Maybe they became NPCs.
Answer: Presumably they had their own adventure with the game then got rid of it or nothing happened.
Answer: This was my biggest gripe with the film - turns up on a French beach at the end of the first film and then one year later turns back up in Brantford? It's like they just wanted to make money so badly.
The girls could be French speaking Canadians.
Question: After Monica and Chandler moved to their new house, why in the world did Joey not move across the hall and take over that great apartment?
Answer: Joey wanted to move to LA and be a big actor for the longest time so getting the apartment was not a step in that direction.
Answer: Finances could be a major part. It's established that Monica gets the apartment dirt cheap from her aunt. And Joey struggles to afford the small apartment on his own as shown in other episodes.
Given that he gave out a cheque for $2000 to Monica, I think Days of Our Lives has given him a stable financial life, just as it did in S2 when he was able to pay Chandler back when he was making decent money.
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Answer: It does. They find her dead at one point.