Just a small question. I may have totally missed the answer to my question while watching the film, but I was wondering
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PulpFictionbuff — 16 years ago(January 24, 2010 10:04 AM)
Ribur1980, you are exactly right, and you saved me the trouble of having to explain it. Well done.
I agree: I can't figure out for sure if she knew about the drugs or not, but it doesn't matter in regards to the OP's question.
Therefore, the answer to the original question is that Abby made up her mind to ditch Carlos when she realized that he had revealed the drugs (whether she knew about them or not). That's why she was trying to get a ticket for one.
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markfilipak — 15 years ago(June 12, 2010 08:16 PM)
** SPOILERS **
Just to clear up some misconceptions on some people's parts
Abby's getting cold feet because Kolzak Yushenkov is getting so close.
Early in the film, on the platform in Irkutsk before Roy misses the train, Jessie and Abby are swapping stories about their pasts. Just after Abby tells Jessie about the cottage on a lake in Vancouver she sees a man and then hurriedly wants to reboard the train. We don't yet know that the man she sees is Kolzak and what significance he has, but she knows. That's pretty much a dead giveaway that dear Abby is not innocent at all. She didn't kill the guy on the boat in Vladivostok but she is after the money if she can get it and get away.
At the next stop, Ulyanovsk, she and Carlos and Jessie get off to wait for Roy. It is there that she gets cold feet and sees a chance to get away without, one should note, telling Carlos that she'd seen Kolzak.
See:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10800241/board/nest/164801093
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dwightloverxoxo — 15 years ago(November 10, 2010 07:24 PM)
Obviously,abby wanted the money. But she realized how many risks Carlos was making, like the fact he told Jessie and she was some random church-going american tourist. Abby was smart and realized she didn't want to get caught by the Russian police, and Carlos was risky. She was planning to get the money from carlos then leave Russia before sh*t got bad and go buy her grandpa's house.
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d98mp — 15 years ago(January 01, 2011 05:17 PM)
Possible Spoiler
I think it is as simple as the script writers wanting to "prove" that Abby is indeed innocent. By making her a bit ambivalent about whether to stay with Carlos or go they are telling us that she wants a change in her life.
If she was so smart she wouldn't get caught. She wouldn't pursue a criminal career in Russia either. Yes, she did have a slight similarity with another girl in another movie who was indeed an evil mastermind, but this is not that movie. -
trhickey — 12 years ago(December 31, 2013 04:01 PM)
I think you and the other posters missed the point. My college Russian is rusty but judging by the sign on the building she was in, I believe Abby was making arrangements to fly out. That would be consistent with the high price she was being charged and that there are not reliable roads connecting remote Siberian towns, especially in Winter.