Fridge Logic
- On the plane when Andy pretends to shoot the pilot and tells him to "Play Dead," she actually fired the gun off. She didn't mime it. So where did the bullet go? Pretty ballsy gamble.
- She may have just been shooting blanks, or she's just that good at shooting on account of her long life.
- How does Quynh appear to be so put together and well-adjusted to the modern-day? If she was captured during the Salem witch trials, that means she was thrown overboard in the 1690s-1700s. She'd have no ID, no money, she wouldn't even know what electricity is, but she shows up calm, collected, and wearing a nice, modern outfit?
- Better yet, why didn't Booker or Nile seem to know about her awakening? They've been dreaming of her, so they should've dreamt that Quynh had escaped her iron coffin.
- We don't know when Quynh got out. Her iron maiden has been underwater for 300-400 years, but it could have rusted away years ago, giving her time to get out and make a life for herself and also giving her time to find out where Andy is and, indeed, where the others are. Presumably at least some of this will be addressed in the sequel.
- Probably it's a Sequel Hook, signifying that something really weird is coming.
- A sequel is in production.
- How did Quynh get out? Iron rusts. After 500 years underwater, she eventually outlived her iron maiden.
- When Copley says they can "name [their] price" for the hostage rescue job, Andy informs him that they'll invoice him when it's done. At the end of the film, their last discussion with Copley is Andy laying out how Copley is going to work for them going forward. (And as Joe points out, "She's not asking.")
- When Merrick tells Copley the film is not enough and he needs the immortals for 'samples', Copley initially says he can get him one, although Merrick insists on all four. The 'one' Copley offers is almost certainly Booker, who he probably thought he could persuade to come willingly. Doubles as Fridge Horror, as Copley had no idea how inhumane Merrick's methods would be, and could quite easily have led Booker into decades of torture without ever knowing it, had Merrick accepted his offer of 'one'.
- Related to the Fridge Horror below, how did Quynh find Booker? Booker has not only been the only one dreaming of her for 200 years: Quynh has dreamed of Booker. It's established that the dreams show snippets of information to make it easier for the immortals to find each other, and after 200 years, Quynh has more than enough to find Booker.
- More likely that she dreamed of Booker after she got out of the iron maiden. I doubt she had time to sleep and dream in between the constant drowning and dying. It's a six-month time jump after all.
- I think it's both. Don't forget that immortals that haven't met still dream of each other when they die, like with what happened with Nile at the start of the film. If she's been dying and coming back for all 200 years of Booker's immortality, she'd likely memorized his face. The six month time jump probably just gave her a chance to recover from her ordeal in the ocean, and gave her time to find him.
- Andy, Nicky, and Joe's usage of melee weapons is more than just Rule of Cool or holding on to the past. Edged and piercing weapons are very effective at getting through modern-day body armor, even when backed by ballistic plating. At close distances, swords and axes are just more effective than bullets, and you don't have to fumble with reloading.
- When Dr. Kozak claims her experiments on Joe and Nicky are going to change the world, Nicky responds: "A fine justification. I've heard it so many times before." Of course he has — not only has he heard such justifications, he himself believed them when he fought in the Crusades, only to later see the error of his ways. Nicky isn't addressing Kozak as a prisoner, he's addressing her as someone who used to be in her shoes. Little wonder that his response actually appears to unsettle her.
- The others explain to Nile that the immortals dream about each other until they meet, and that night Nile dreams about Quynh trapped and drowning over and over again. It's bad enough that Nile can apparently expect periodic dreams about Quynh's torture indefinitely, but if you start putting the timelines together, the implications get worse. Quynh has been trapped for 500 years. Joe and Nicky died in the Crusades (and Copley's notes, as shown in the credits sequence, appear to date it to 1099), but Booker died in 1812. I.e., Booker never had a chance to meet Quynh because she was already at the bottom of the ocean and has presumably been (the only one) stuck dreaming about her for the past 200 years.
- Unless something happens and the others un-exile him, Booker will never see Andy again. She's no longer immortal, so she'll be long dead by the time his hundred-year exile is over.
- That's the whole point. She didn't want his presence to spoil what's left of her life.
- Who were the people that the immortals slaughtered in Sudan? The guards in the outside compound might've been local hires but the ones in the underground ambush clearly had some connection to Copley, given that Copley was watching them through cameras. They're not Merrick's men, seeing how Merrick only offered to help Copley after he saw the footage. Were they US government agents? CIA? Private firms? Did Copley send a dozen innocent men to their deaths for the sake of some footage?
- Puts a new spin on Merrick dismissing the footage as "a $2 million snuff film."
- If "The Old Guard: Force Multiplied" is any indication, It is very likely that Quynh will be the sequel's antagonist. Which begs this question: what kind of monumental threat to humanity could an immortal with the ambition and mindset of someone of the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, or Mao pose?
