I loved this film and, in all honesty, this is a minor nitpick, but what on Earth does Rose use that basement for when he's not stashing people down there? The walls are all fluorescent and stuff and he has that thing that Phoebe uses as a ladder to get up to the ceiling tiles, which seems to be there for no reason other than to be a convenient thing that she can use in an escape attempt.
The ladder I'm not sure about, but the room itself is a workout room. With the mirrors, benches, and weights (a weight even gets used by Mike to kill a guy). The fluorescent paint is just decoration that fits with Rose's character.
Pretty sure the ladder is a weights rack on its side.
Are TOUGHGUY also supposed to be failures? If yes, why using them and if not, well they are really bad at the whole assassination thing. Because aside Improbable Weapon User, they have nothing that regular training wouldn't give and they have severe drawbacks that make them inefficient at stealth operation.
That's the point. Yates is an idiot who didn't accept that the WISEMAN project was a failure and attempted it again with even more spectacularly wrong results. Trying to kill Mike in the first place was petty and pointless; going to the lengths he went to was insane overkill. The plot only works because the villain is a Stupid Evil moron, but it's done on purpose for that reason.
