Picking Nits
Vents; liquor strength; furniture; cigarette; phones; code; clothes; sewage; chest wound
In the discussion (10)
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- The ceilings and vents are pristine and perfectly lit, without the rat droppings or cobwebs expected in an old school.
- The inexperienced boys should be much drunker after the strong vodka mixture.
- Moving the dean’s furniture and reproducing its exact arrangement outdoors would take enormous effort.
- The unattended cigarette should extinguish before burning down far enough to ignite the matches.
- The boys never revisit their established phone-tapping skills as a way to contact help.
- The brief numerical code seems incapable of communicating which mafia son is being held.
- The terrorists apparently bring no change of clothes for several days.
- Billy’s sewage-soaked condition should undermine the claim that he has merely showered.
- The lonely dean hanging up immediately on the phone-sex call is jokingly considered implausible.
- Gossett’s character recovers implausibly quickly from a chest wound.