Throughout the movie when Gene Hackman listens to the conversation on tape, the man says "He'd kill us if he has the chance," with no emphasis on any one word. But at the end of the film after the murder, he thinks back, and the man says "He'd kill US if he has the chance," stressing the word "us." That totally changes the significance of the sentence. If it was used throughout, it would have been easy to guess the twist at the end. [Harry sees (and hears) things in a different way than others. He probably was so paranoid about causing another murder that he heard one word being stressed instead of another. Indeed, the film also seems to be about how people perceive things differently.]
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