Didn't the hitman know that Nikki wasn't Rachel???
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Bodyguard
starduss_ala — 10 years ago(April 22, 2015 03:30 PM)
He goes in the cabin, pulls a gun on her and she's like "No, stop!!! I'm the one that hired you."everybody knew who Rachel Marron was and even if she wasn't famous, hitman usually get a picture of who they are suppose to be killing. He knew that wasn't Rachel so why'd he shoot Nikki???
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strntz — 10 years ago(November 23, 2015 04:29 PM)
Could have been dark enough for the hitman to mistake them, or perhaps he didn't care who got shot as long as his mark also got taken out.
Also, Nikki told Frank that she didn't know who the hitman was as he was hired by proxy. Perhaps once she Nikki told the hitman that she was the one who hired him, he wanted her dead so she couldn't finger him.
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liverpool26 — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 05:36 PM)
She said "I'm the one" he killed her before she could say "who hired you" my guess was he knew Frank was a good bodyguard, he entered the house and the sister spots him and makes alot of noise his priority imo was to shut her up and kill Rachel or escape. I don't think he mistook her for Rachel as he nearly had sex with Rachel he certainly knew what she looked like imo it was to shut her up before frank heard her and no witnesses (although we later see him in a balaclava but I think that was purely done so the audience didn't recognise him and spoil the ending)
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GIRobotII — 9 years ago(July 28, 2016 06:02 AM)
Exactly. She was probably deliberately being loud to alert everyone else in the house to the danger present, so they could hide, and so Frank could act. And yeah, he knew she wasn't Rachel, he probably just shot her to silence her before she drew too much attention to him. And thus also, to avoid spoiling the ending for the audience.