From: raburng@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (raburn greg alan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: BASIC INSTINCT (Spoilers!) Who did who?
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:02:51 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

In article <1992Apr7.185639.26553@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> craigb@ot.austin.ibm.com writes:
>Can anyone fill in the question marks in the following?

I've given these a lot of thought, and you could argue any of these some other
way, but here are my opinions.

>Victim			Killer
>------			------
>Catherine's parents	??????
			Catherine.  While it could've been an accident, I
			think she killed them.  The fact that she wrote about
			a kid blowing up his parents to see if he can get away
			with it (although this book was written
			AFTER the event, unlike the others), leads me to
			suspect that she killed them.

>Berkeley professor	??????
			Catherine.  Ice picks are her style.

>Beth's husband		??????
			Beth.  It could've been any ordinary unsolved drive-
			by killing, but we're led to suspect Beth, so I'll go
			with my instincts.
			I base my conclusions on these weak observations:
			1)	Every woman Catherine has slept with has been
					a murderess.
			2)	Every man Catherine has slept with has died
					(I'm assuming that Catherine had a
					fling with her professor).
			Therefore Beth, being the only known possible exception,
			by the first rule must have murdered at least one
			person.  I know some people will disagree with me, but
			that's my opinion.

>The ex-rock star	??????
			Catherine.  No doubt about this one.

>The IAD man		??????
			Beth.  '38's are her weapon (her husband died by one
			also).  She knew that Shooter had a confrontation with
			the IA man (Nilson?) that day, and as far as we know
			Catherine didn't.  Why would Beth do it?  I don't
			think it was to frame Shooter, but instead was revenge
			for betraying her trust by selling Shooter's files to
			Catherine.

>Shooter's partner	??????
			Catherine.  No doubt about this one.  Catherine meant
			to frame Beth and get herself off the hook. The reason
			Shooter (I've already forgotten his character's name!
			Isn't that pathetic?) realized that his partner was
			in danger was that he had read about the death of his
			partner in the printout of Catherine's new book.  No
			one else, other than possibly the old lady, would have
			read this.  I doubt that the old lady was the killer,
			since I believe the ice pick murders were all done by
			the same person, and that was definitely no old lady
			in the opening scene!
			That what was so interesting about the final minutes:
			Shooter knew Catherine was the killer and would
			probably try to kill him (though not right then, or
			else she'd get caught for sure), but he was still
			sleeping (well... not quite SLEEPing...) with her!

			... maybe she won't kill him:  "Killing's not like
			smoking; you can quit."
      
			If she falls in love with him (pretty slim odds),
			he might have a chance; she didn't kill her boxer
			boyfriend... 'course he died anyway (I think if she
			had killed the boxer, she would've written a book
			about it).

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