The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Freddie Miles: Tommy. How's the peeping? Tommy, how's the peeping? Tommy. Tommy. Tommy. Tommy. Tommy.

Marge Sherwood: I don't believe a single word you've said.
Tom Ripley: You're shivering, Marge. Look at you, Marge. Can I hold you? Will you let me hold you?

Tom Ripley: Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.

Tom Ripley: I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Continuity mistake: When Tom, posing as Dickie, rents a place in Rome, and after Tom kills Freddie, the police are all over him. Marge visits and Tom, as Dickie, asks the policeman to ask her to come back later, leaving Tom alone with the detective. But as Marge creeps up the stairs to see Dickie, the policeman is suddenly with Tom and the detective, even though the policeman had left and Tom had closed the doors. The policeman should not have been there.

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Question: Maybe I missed a major plot point, but why exactly does Tom kill his lover at the very end?

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Chosen answer: Tom and his lover, Peter, are travelling on a boat. Meredith, who knows Tom as Dickie, is also on the boat. If they were to meet her while together, Tom's false identity would have been revealed. Peter would have been able to figure out that Tom actually murdered Dickie.

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Answer: He had to kill him. Tom couldn't kill Meredith because she wasn't travelling alone, and Peter was.

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