Plot Hole: The Flash Paper?
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Bob_Brooker — 11 years ago(March 03, 2015 10:01 AM)
They did a nice job of explaining how they pulled off the first bank heist from Vegas using flash paper leaving no trace. But they didn't explain how they would have ignited said flash paper. Something would have been left behind, disproving their "magic". No?
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kcg98 — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 04:48 AM)
The point of burning it was to make it look like they actually robbed the bank using magic.
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sportalero — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 11:07 PM)
The way I rationalized it was Dylan Rhodes had been planning every meticulous detail to this caper for a long time and as good a job as he did putting this team together, he couldn't leave to chance that EVERYTHING would fall into place on its own. Since he was FBI in the Vegas office (likely also part of his plan), he knew that this high profile case would fall right into his lap, therefore giving him the "power" to control what direction the investigation went in. First time watching the scene after they were arrested in Vegas, Dylan talking to the Horsemen felt like an interrogation. After watching it again, it felt more like a "yearly review" to see how his pawns were progressing.
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philoj — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 01:20 PM)
Sure they explained it - the paper was coated in fertilizer, and when the billionaire friend of M's walked up to it, the radio transmitter in his lapel pin set off the igniter in the metal strip
I may have fallen asleep watching the movie and woken back up during a James Bond movie. I'm not sure.
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