Fugitive question
ph999...@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
My family and I just finished watching the video release of THE FUGITIVE,
and we all have a question that's driving us up the wall because we can't
figure out the answer.
At the very end of the film, Tommy Lee Jones' character and Kimble get
in the car and Jones unlocks Kimble's handcuffs. He then takes a white
plastic bag from someone standing outside the car, pulls the bag straight
and squeezes it as though to show it were empty in the middle.
There seems to be something at the bottom of it. He then hands the bag
to Kimble and Kimble asks, "I thought you didn't care," and the scene
goes on.
WHAT'S IN THE BAG? Does anyone know? WE MUST KNOW!
Email replies preferred.
Steven.K...@uwrf.edu
Christopher Thong
------ i thought that at first, he was going to offer some chewing tobacco
to ford, but it seemed later on that he put it on ford's wrists.. maybe it
was ice or anaesthetic for the cuff burns ? i dunno...
i'm just lost at the part when he goes into the prosthetics part of the
hospital and starts to zip thru the computer catalogue of artificial arm
users. he seemed to be awful sure of a lot of information on the "one armed
man" , like when the last adjustment was made and all that. i'm wondering how
he gathered all that simply from a brief scuffle with the villain ? or was it
all guesswork ? hmmmm....
chris
>Email replies preferred.
>Steven.K...@uwrf.edu
Dan Saltzstein
> >My family and I just finished watching the video release of THE FUGITIVE,
> >and we all have a question that's driving us up the wall because we can't
> >figure out the answer.
> >At the very end of the film, Tommy Lee Jones' character and Kimble get
> >in the car and Jones unlocks Kimble's handcuffs. He then takes a white
> >plastic bag from someone standing outside the car, pulls the bag straight
> >and squeezes it as though to show it were empty in the middle.
> >There seems to be something at the bottom of it. He then hands the bag
> >to Kimble and Kimble asks, "I thought you didn't care," and the scene
> >goes on.
> >WHAT'S IN THE BAG? Does anyone know? WE MUST KNOW!
It's not a bag actually, but an icebag. Well, not exactly an icebag, but a
synthetic substance that gets cold when squeezed...
- dan
J.R.M. Willis
It`s a cold compress pack.
Jimbob
Sanjiv Sarwate
>Christopher Thong (cth...@kits.sfu.ca) wrote:
>> >At the very end of the film, Tommy Lee Jones' character and Kimble get
>> >in the car and Jones unlocks Kimble's handcuffs. He then takes a white
>> >plastic bag from someone standing outside the car, pulls the bag straight
>> >and squeezes it as though to show it were empty in the middle.
>> >There seems to be something at the bottom of it. He then hands the bag
>> >to Kimble and Kimble asks, "I thought you didn't care," and the scene
>> >goes on.
>> >WHAT'S IN THE BAG? Does anyone know? WE MUST KNOW!
>It's not a bag actually, but an icebag. Well, not exactly an icebag, but a
>synthetic substance that gets cold when squeezed...
>- dan
This question is definitely the number one question asked about this film.
It's a chemical cold pack. It's based on a simple endothermic chemical
reaction. Squeezing the bag mixes the components.
I sometimes get the feeling that all of the people who are asking this question
have never, ever, ever had a muscle injury in their entire lives. I envy
them. Myself, I am far too familiar with those chemical cold packs.
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Sanjiv Sarwate
>i'm just lost at the part when he goes into the prosthetics part of the
>hospital and starts to zip thru the computer catalogue of artificial arm
>users. he seemed to be awful sure of a lot of information on the "one armed
>man" , like when the last adjustment was made and all that. i'm wondering how
>he gathered all that simply from a brief scuffle with the villain ? or was it
>all guesswork ? hmmmm....
Well, the big assumption he made actually was that the prosthetic had been
installed at Cook County Hospital. Most of the other stuff made sense. He
knew the type of arm, because he had seen it, and those arms have to be
adjusted every so often. The range was pretty broad for the adjustment,
as I recall (like six months or so).
>chris
>>Email replies preferred.
>>Steven.K...@uwrf.edu
Russell Spence
:It's not a bag actually, but an icebag. Well, not exactly an icebag, but a
:synthetic substance that gets cold when squeezed...
:- dan
WRONG!!!
It's a heat bag. It generates heat when squeezed. They are often
used by hunters to warm their hands in cold weather.
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Russell Spence Austin, Texas
"Without music life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
Joe Hlatky
I thought that it was rather ingenious of Kimble to narrow down the search
for the killer by limiting the field to a date right after the murder.
The killer (Sykes) would need to get his arm readjusted after the tumble down
the stairs and the fight with kimble.
Now about hitting paydirt a CCH:
It seems that if Kimble didn't find what he was looking for there, he would
search another prosthetics lab. (Maybe it is the only prosethics lab in the
area?)
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University of Pennsylvania || his head is not the answer!"
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Scott Borders
>|> in the car and Jones unlocks Kimble's handcuffs. He then takes a white
>|> plastic bag from someone standing outside the car, pulls the bag straight
>|> and squeezes it as though to show it were empty in the middle.
>|> There seems to be something at the bottom of it. He then hands the bag
>|> to Kimble and Kimble asks, "I thought you didn't care," and the scene
>|> goes on.
>|>
>|> WHAT'S IN THE BAG? Does anyone know? WE MUST KNOW!
The plastic bag was a disposable cold-pack of the type found in first-
aid kits. It consists of a small pack of white pellets that is contained
in a bag of liquid. To activate the cold-pack, you squeeze it in the
middle to break the open the packet of pellets, which then mixes with
the liquid. Nifty chemical reaction ensues, and the pack becomes cold.
Gerard gives the ice-pack to Kimble as an act of kindness; as you recall,
Kimble has been beaten up pretty badly. Hence, the line "I thought you
didn't care," which is also a reference to an earlier scene in which
Kimble says, "I didn't kill my wife!" to which Gerard replies (some-
what sarcastically), "I don't care!"
My apoligies if I've misspelled character names or slightly missed on
the quotes . . .
Scott
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