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* RedHerring: Several contained in the film. One of the major ones is the subplot with the serial rapist/murderer. The film arguably invites the viewers to seek the identity of the killer and how the murders fit with the machinations of the characters. They don't. [[spoiler:The killer is college handyman Earl Leemus. A minor character who plays no part in the money-making schemes of the main characters. ]]

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* RedHerring: Several contained in the film. One of the major ones is the subplot with the serial rapist/murderer. The film arguably invites the viewers to seek the identity of the killer and how the murders fit with the machinations of the characters. They don't. [[spoiler:The killer is college handyman Earl Leemus. A Leemus, a minor character who plays no part in the money-making schemes of the main characters. ]]
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-->'''Jed:''' I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from post-operative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something:'''I am God'''.
** And then it turns out that the trope is PlayedWith: [[spoiler: the whole speech was staged to ensure a conviction by the court - but at the same time it is implied that Jed didn't really have to pretend when he gave it.]]

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-->'''Jed:''' I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from post-operative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something:'''I something: '''I am God'''.
** And then it turns out that the trope is PlayedWith: [[spoiler: the whole speech was staged to ensure a conviction by the court - court-- but at the same time it is implied that Jed didn't really have to pretend when he gave it.]]
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* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: For Jed: it's Pride. And for Tracy: it's Greed. Both lead to their downfall. Bonus for for Jed getting killed by Tracy, because of Greed.]]

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* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler: For Jed: it's Pride. And for Tracy: it's Greed. Both lead to their downfall. Bonus for points for Jed getting killed by Tracy, because of Greed.]]

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