Question: Why wasn't Castor Troy cuffed to the bed and watched by several agents? And how did he know which agents knew of the switch and thus kill only them?
jshy7979
1st Sep 2020
Face/Off (1997)
Answer: For the first question, in the chance that he did wake up (which he did). He's a very dangerous man in a coma and could wake up and escape if not watched or cuffed. Second question, he would have watched the video seen when the doctor comes in and saw which agents were there, as well as would have tortured the information out of the doctor about it.
Good answer to the second question, but the first one asked why Troy WASN'T watched and cuffed. In the film, he wakes up alone and unrestrained.
The medical staff thought that Castor Troy was so far into his coma that he wouldn't wake up, as made apparent when the agent put her cigarette out on his arm. They were not expecting him to wake up.
25th Jan 2015
Face/Off (1997)
Question: How could they possibly remove Archer's bullet scar? If they could, wouldn't that just create a bigger scar?
Chosen answer: Surgical scar removal is a real thing, usually involving skin grafts or lasers. Keloid scarring is a result of the body aggressively attempting to heal/repair itself after trauma or injury (in this case, the gunshot). With proper surgical techniques, the body isn't traumatized to the point that deep scarring occurs. Of course, just like with the face surgery, the movie exaggerates the results of the scar removal.
I thought he kept it.
He says he wanted to keep it at the beginning of the movie, but when he is about to have his face changed back at the end of the movie, he says he doesn't need it anymore.
Answer: It's possible the doctors did not expect him to wake up (at least so soon). Also, when Castor woke up, there were no doctors around, but he was watching a video of the procedure. So, even though we don't see it on screen, maybe somewhere in the video he saw the head doctor and the other two coordinating everything before the part we see him watching. A valid set of questions here, though, is: why would a doctor film all this and then leave the tape around, and how did Castor know where to find it?