A Few Good Men The Rewatchables
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A Few Good Men

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Lunch; Markinson; Kendrick; reaction faces; softball; logs; punishment; clerk; failed confession

In the discussion (14)
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  • What the officers discussed during the rest of the lengthy lunch is questioned, with baseball, Cuba and Desert Storm floated as possibilities.
  • Markinson’s death is jokingly questioned as possibly staged, using his counterintelligence background and reluctance to testify as imaginative support.
  • Whether guilt about Santiago alone explains Markinson’s suicide is questioned, as is how he obtained a gun while guarded.
  • The failure to introduce Markinson’s note as evidence raises questions about whether Santiago’s family received it and how it could have been mailed from his guarded room.
  • Kendrick’s home state is imagined as Alabama or Mississippi, followed by joking speculation about his political affiliations and Auburn allegiance.
  • Ross’s response to Jessup’s confession beats Kaffee’s questioning look; the group explicitly declines to establish this as a new category.
  • Ross’s silent co-counsel and repeated pencil-playing appearances are questioned.
  • Kaffee is imagined assigning himself shortstop, with center field considered but infield practice supporting the shortstop theory.
  • Making a flight log disappear is considered plausible in the 1990s.
  • Jessup’s likely punishment remains uncertain, with prison, loss of rank and discharge discussed and one prediction that he would serve no time.
  • Whether Jessup ever carried out his graphic threat is questioned and linked to the proposed prequel.
  • Kaffee is imagined accumulating multiple drunk-driving offenses, with at least two suggested.
  • The defense’s failure to call Jessup’s clerk Tom is questioned because he seems to overhear every crucial conversation; blaming the doctor instead of the Marines is another briefly raised strategy.
  • If Jessup never confessed, Kaffee might face a court-martial or professional disillusionment; a separate dark hypothetical imagines Kendrick retaliating against him.