The banker had it coming, buna. She was too nosey and tried to cause troubles for Leroy.
Chilli chatka!

This was depressing scenes, hana.

I also think the way she blurted out about not being a high school etc showed she was someone who spoke without thinking, making her a bigger risk of talking.

I guess he killed her because she caught his lie and he wanted to cover up any loose ends apparently. What gets me, then if he is that careful why did he then give it as a clue over the phone to Horrigan? (His line: "Some people die simply because they're from Minneapolis")

Plot device.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

The whole thing was so stupid he could have just said something like "my family moved to San Francisco (or any big city far from Minnesota state) before I went to high school".

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If you're undercover and evading the Authorities, you don't want to give out anything like your home town. If the authorities know that they have a place to look for info about you.

The real question is why even bother lying about something as innocuous as where you're from. If he had done that, even she was from that town/city, he would at least know the area.

Same reason he killed the hunters who had seen his homemade gun.

I know the name of every school because we play them in sports, even some of the suburban schools. And we have debate teams too, and cheerleader contests. All sorts of ways that you just know all of the schools.
I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

She knows his face and his voice. It is never a waste of time to clean up loose ends, and that is exactly what he did.
And it re-emphasises to us how professionally ruthless an assassin he is.

Correct.

There's no reason for him to kill her because she doesn't know anything.
She knows his face and his voice. It is never a waste of time to clean up loose ends, and that is exactly what he did.

"That's a hell of a Caucasian Jackie" -The Dude

I hated that 'There's no "Whatever the school's name was' in Minneapolis.' line.
One, even if there wasn't, why would you embarrass a client like that in a bank? It's none of your goddamn business, he's opening an account and you're making small talk. You don't treat customers that way, especially since there's absolutely no reason you would assume something sinister about the man. Other than 'he doesn't want to talk to me', which he establishes not ten seconds later when he says 'I'm running late, is this going to take long?'
So what do you do in that instance? Do you assume he must be a presidential assassin, or do you assume he's a dickbag? The 2nd one, obviously. There's no reason for him to kill her because she doesn't know anything.
Second, according to Wikipedia, Minneapolis has a metro population of 3.3 million people. Even assuming 2.3 million at the time this movie was made, what happened here? Malkovich runs into the one bank teller with the photographic memory of every high school name in a city of two million people?
Absurd. You look at her reaction when she sees him at her house, she's already forgotten about him. Waste of time on the part of the 'master assassin'.
"Harry talks in his sleep, haven't you noticed? FORGETICUS!!!"

if he didn't do it in public
it wouldn't look right
all the campaign contributors go into the bank,, except him
ohh spookkyyy

That scene was so awkward; it seems like he would have used a more covert and surefire way of handling that than depending on the woman letting him in the house.

OOOHHH, good point, yeah I totally missed that little snip. I gues he, being a professional sociopathic killer, just knew more about takeing care of ANY possible mistakes.

Well, remember, at the bank, when she was opening the account for him, she asked where he was from, just making conversation. He replied, Minneapolis. (It was a lie, of course.) But when she replied she was from Minneapolis also, that threw a wrench into his plan. Especially when she asked where he went to high school, and he mentioned the name of a high school that didn't exist in that city. Since she really was from Minneapolis, she would know whether a high school with that name existed there. So naturally, she'd be suspicious. Thus, if the FBI or Secret Service came asking questions, his b******t story would stick out like a sore thumb to her, and she'd easily remember it to tell to them. So this was a risk he couldn't afford. So she had to be killed to tie up that loose end, along with her roommate, because she was a witness.