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The Usual Suspects

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Pollak's missing stardom; the detective's next day; Soze remarrying; Soze vs Neil McCauley; the boat plan

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  • Why wasn't Kevin Pollak a bigger star? A bad job by his agent; he could have had a Caddyshack-type comedy.
  • The detective's next day at the office after blowing the case is imagined, including seeing his face at the fax and a reassignment to parking tickets.
  • Did Soze marry again? Probably not; he keeps no attachments.
  • Soze versus Neil McCauley is raised; a host built a greatest-teams chapter of his basketball book around the Soze mindset, and Marcus Smart is said to be in the Soze zone.
  • The boat plot is hard to follow; why not a simpler way to get the witness than a massive San Pedro gunfight? The reply is that it kills all his enemies at once, as a sociopath would.