The Town

Plot hole: When Claire is getting interviewed at the FBI building, there's pics of inside the bank during the robbery, even though the security tapes were destroyed in the microwave.

Mike Mueller

Plot hole: These guys supposedly rob banks in Boston and then high tail it back to "safety" in Charlestown. In one chase the police even screech to a halt at the city limits. First of all, Charlestown is not a separate city, it's a neighborhood within Boston so that idea doesn't hold water. Second, police can continue a chase past city lines anyway.

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Suggested correction: The cop cars only "screech to a halt" because they are intentionally blocking the bridge to Charlestown. At that point they had switched cars and there were no police actively on their tail, so the police didn't realise they were too late in blocking the bridge.

Plot hole: When Claire is getting interviewed at the FBI building, there's pics of inside the bank during the robbery, even though the security tapes were destroyed in the microwave.

Mike Mueller

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Question: Toward the end of the movie, one of the gang members visits a barber shop and picks up a small bag of cut hair swept from the floor. I cannot remember any follow-up to this scene showing how or where this cut hair was used. I have asked several people who have seen the movie and no one seems to know what happened to this hair. Was there any follow-up to this scene or did I blink and miss the part that shows what they did with it?

Answer: The bag of hair from the barbershop was used to throw off the police when they search the getaway car later. In other words they will find all the scattered hair and have the wrong DNA. This is what they do after the second heist. They never used one at the end since the cops already knew who they were.

Gavin Jackson

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