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Panic Room

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Panic Room	label	Panic Room
Panic Room	page	PanicRoom
Panic Room	comment	Panic Room is a 2002 thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Jodie Foster and a young Kristen Stewart.Recently-divorced Meg Altman (Foster) and her 12-year-old daughter Sarah (Stewart) move into a four-story Manhattan brownstone which has a fortified "panic room" in case of home invasion. Late at night, three burglars — Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) — break in looking for money hidden in the house by the previous owner.The two women lock themselves up in the room, but are unable to call for help. Worse yet, the money was stored in the panic room and the burglars have no issue going through the new owners to get it (also, originally unbeknownst to them, it was far more than they had been told it was, and in the form of bearer bonds).
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Panic Room / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Panic Room / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Early in the movie, Meg and Sarah are in the panic room looking at the intruders on the closed-circuit TV, Sarah asks why the men are there. Meg replied that the robbers may want to rob them or ... something else. She trails off without finishing the thought, but it's clear that (as she doesn't think there's much of particular value in the house), she is worried about being raped. Later, after Sarah has ended up locked in the panic room with the burglars the first thing Meg says after being reunited is "Did they hurt you? Did they touch you?" in a tone of voice that clearly shows how terrified she was that this might have happened.
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Panic Room / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Panic Room / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Pearlstine's, even though Junior is the only one to appear onscreen. Old Sidney Pearlstine kept half of his money hidden in a panic room, his kids started suing each other as soon as he disappeared and Junior (one of his grandchildren) tries to break into the house and steal the money.
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Panic Room / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Panic Room / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Writer David Koepp got the idea for the film from an article in The New York Times about "safe rooms" and getting stuck inside an elevator in his own brownstone.
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Panic Room / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Panic Room / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Raoul.
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Panic Room / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Panic Room / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Nicole Kidman as Stephen's new woman, who answers the phone when Meg calls for help; Kidman was originally cast as Meg but had to withdraw from production after a knee injury filming Moulin Rouge!. Andrew Kevin Walker, who had worked on Fincher's last few scripts, plays the drowsy neighbour whom the captives try to signal with a flashlight.
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Panic Room / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Panic Room / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Raoul... at first.
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Panic Room / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
Panic Room / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: Burnham asks Raoul this when he learns he brought a gun to the burglary.
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Panic Room / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Panic Room / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The thieves lampshade their idiocy when Meg destroys the cameras when she is trapped outside of the room and they inside, hiding her and allowing her to set up ambushes. They note they should have done that too.
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Panic Room / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Panic Room / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Stephen Altman. He doesn't have the opportunity to do much after Raoul captures, tortures and beats him, but he gets points for calling the police in the first place and for shooting at Raoul.
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Panic Room / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Panic Room / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Raoul loses at least two of his fingers and most likely has the rest of them broken when the panic room door slams shut on them, after he had his hand positioned out of range of the door sensors. Once the loot is scored, we see Raoul pick them up while leaving the panic room.
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Panic Room / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Panic Room / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: It's never explained exactly why Raoul brought a gun to the job in the first place. It clearly shows his violent inclinations. However, given the house was supposed to be empty, it seems to imply he may have been planning to use it to rob his fellow burglars of their shares all along. Then again, there is the old adage that having a gun and not needing it is better than needing a gun and not having it. Raoul was probably worried that a witness or police officer would catch them in the act.
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Panic Room / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Panic Room / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Burnham. And, unlike Junior and Raoul, he refuses to hurt people.
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Panic Room / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Panic Room / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Junior believes he's the Diabolical Mastermind, that Raoul is the Dumb Muscle and Burnham is The Smart Guy. Turns out, he was only right about the last one. Junior even points out that Raoul talks like an Elmore Leonard character and he should cut it out because it's not an intimidating way of talking in Real Life... kind of forgetting what noir villains like to do.
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Panic Room / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Panic Room / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The sledgehammer used by Raoul to smash the ceiling later gets utilised by Meg to smash the security cameras, lights, and mirrors, and to use as a weapon.
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Panic Room / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Panic Room / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Burnham.
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Panic Room / int_266b283	type	Crime After Crime
Panic Room / int_266b283	comment	Burnham wants to leave as soon as he discovers that there are people in the apartment, but Junior talks him into staying. From there it becomes Crime After Crime. After Raoul kills Junior he forced Burnham to finish the job under threat of his life.
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Panic Room / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Panic Room / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Most of the film unfolds over a single night.
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Panic Room / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Panic Room / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: When Meg smashes all the cameras in the house, leaving the burglars blind in the panic room, Raoul says what's been on the audience's mind for the past hour: When Raoul gets verbose about threatening Junior's life in a way people don't utilize in real life, Junior mocks his "Elmore Leonard bullshit".
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Panic Room / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Panic Room / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Raoul. The man carries a gun and isn't afraid of using it... and shooting people in the head is the more merciful thing he does throughout the film.
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Panic Room / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Panic Room / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Downplayed; Meg, still broken over her husband leaving her, weeps in the bathtub and downs a glass of wine.
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Panic Room / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
Panic Room / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: The police arrives after the big fight. All they have to do is to arrest Burnham who was fleeing.
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Panic Room / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Panic Room / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: When Junior tries to cut his losses and leave, Burnham warns him that he will split the money with Raoul and that if he sends the cops after them in response, they "will know who to look for". Although it appears that Burnham was bluffing, as he's pretty shocked when Raoul simply shoots Junior on the spot.
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Panic Room / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Panic Room / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: A fair bit of Junior and Raoul's dialogue. Especially when the latter is really mad.
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Panic Room / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Panic Room / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The three dimensional opening credits that look like they're floating above various shots of the New York City skyline.
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Panic Room / int_380df4da	type	Comic Trio
Panic Room / int_380df4da	comment	Comic Trio: Although they aren't exactly comedic, the burglars fit the role nicely. Junior's the navigator, Raoul is the driver and Burnham's in the backseat.
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Panic Room / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Panic Room / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As the source of drama and tension, no less: There's a phone in the panic room, but as they just moved in, it's not set up yet. The panic room has an emergency stash of food, but with essentials that can't help Sarah get her blood sugar up. Even the gum is sugar-free. Sarah tries to flash a SOS signal with a flashlight to their neighbor; the neighbor just shuts the blinds on the blinking light. Junior is tasked with disconnecting the phone line, and rips out the main cord in the kitchen as movie characters do. It takes more than that to actually disable the line, as he finds out the hard way. The burglars are able to cut the phone line before Meg can tell Stephen what's happening. But getting a panicked call in the middle of the night from his ex-wife is enough for him to call the cops and go to the house himself even without Meg filling him in on what's happening. With Sarah's life hanging in the balance, Meg bluffs the cops away by saying her call to her ex-husband was an embarrassing drink-and-dial. The cops aren't convinced and ask her for a Covert Distress Code if she's being held hostage, to which Meg laughs off. Meg's behavior is flimsy enough for the cops to take it as a Quiet Cry for Help and return in short order with a SWAT team. During the climax, Stephen tries to shoot Raoul, but even with a big target in front of him, his immobilized, injured hand makes it impossible to get off an accurate shot.
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Panic Room / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Panic Room / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Raoul's treatment of Stephen.
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Panic Room / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Panic Room / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: From one floor down to another, through keyholes and coffeemakers.
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Panic Room / int_43e71a8c	type	Bluffing the Authorities
Panic Room / int_43e71a8c	comment	With Sarah's life hanging in the balance, Meg bluffs the cops away by saying her call to her ex-husband was an embarrassing drink-and-dial. The cops aren't convinced and ask her for a Covert Distress Code if she's being held hostage, to which Meg laughs off. Meg's behavior is flimsy enough for the cops to take it as a Quiet Cry for Help and return in short order with a SWAT team.
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Panic Room / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Panic Room / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Meg and Burnham are quite well matched in this regard, and engage in a lot of this as they try to outmaneuver each other.
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Panic Room / int_461defa0	type	Two-Faced
Panic Room / int_461defa0	comment	Two-Faced: When Junior gets set on fire, he ends up with considerable burns on the right side of his face and arm.
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Panic Room / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
Panic Room / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Raoul after getting the panic room door slammed shut on his hand.
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Panic Room / int_471b2ede	type	Obviously Not Fine
Panic Room / int_471b2ede	comment	Obviously Not Fine: How the cops determine Meg is in serious jeopardy. Meg is just insistent enough that she's fine and her call to her husband was a sad ex-wife call, and the time and circumstances just suspicious enough that the cops take her behavior as this trope, and immediately send for SWAT without letting Meg know they're doing so to prevent the situation from escalating.
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Panic Room / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Panic Room / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: The thieves cut the main phone lines of the house to prevent Meg and her daughter from calling out, while the phone in the titular room is on a different line but hasn't been installed yet. However, Junior simply cut the cord of the kitchen phone, not the entire line. Meg manages to jury rig the panic room's phone into the main line and get a call for help out before the thieves disconnect the lines for real.
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Panic Room / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Panic Room / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: While discussing splitting the money, Junior casually notes that he'll be walking away with $800,000-900,000 from the inheritance anyway if he simply gives up and goes home. The others realize that, with almost a dozen other grandchildren also standing to inherit and Junior's likely being a black sheep of the family, there's way more in the panic room safe than he initially let on (about 3 million).
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Panic Room / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Panic Room / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Raoul implies that he plans to kill Sarah, and at one point outright threatens to do it. He also punches her across the room in the final fight.
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Panic Room / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Panic Room / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Meg buys the ridiculously huge house for just herself and her daughter to stick it to her rich ex-husband for a messy divorce. It even has an elevator!
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Panic Room / int_4ad1816a	type	Everyone Knows Morse
Panic Room / int_4ad1816a	comment	Everyone Knows Morse: Sarah learned "SOS" from Titanic (1997), and attempts to signal a neighbour by flashing it through a vent. It doesn't work.
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Panic Room / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Panic Room / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Junior, despite being the ostensible leader of the burglars, lacks the brutality of Raoul or the intelligence of Burnham. He constantly underestimates the resourcefulness of the house's owners and overestimates his own brilliance. It results in his death when Raoul realizes that he tried to rip him and Burnham off.
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Panic Room / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
Panic Room / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Sarah.
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Panic Room / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Panic Room / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Lydia has a moment like this:
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Panic Room / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Panic Room / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Meg starts to become one towards the end of the film, notably when she whacks Raoul across the head with a sledgehammer.
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Panic Room / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Panic Room / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted. Meg is shown going to the toilet in the middle of the night and her urinating is audible. There's also a conspicuous toilet in the panic room, although no one uses it.
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Panic Room / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
Panic Room / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: While itâ€™s never stated outright that Sarah has Diabetes, there are enough context clues to make it easy to figure out if you know what it is.
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Panic Room / int_5942bb71	type	Disguised Hostage Gambit
Panic Room / int_5942bb71	comment	Disguised Hostage Gambit: Burnham and Raoul are able to lure Meg out of the panic room by disguising Raoul as her husband Stephen (whom they've taken captive and already tortured) and Stephen as Raoul.
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Panic Room / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Panic Room / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Played with and ultimately subverted: Meg calls 911, only to be put on hold. She then calls Stephen for help, only for the burglars to cut the cord, but not before Stephen gets suspicious and calls the police himself. They show up and confront Meg at the front door (who has to try to act normal as the burglars are holding her daughter hostage), and do indeed notice that something is horribly wrong. They later return with the NYC Emergency Service Unit.
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Panic Room / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Panic Room / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: When Junior is going over all the relatives he has to share the money with if it gets found, he says "Stephen, Jeffrey, Catherine, David. Five grandkids." It's unclear if he means he and the other four are the five grandkids (and the only heirs), or he means five grandkids, and the other four people. Burnham seems to think it's the later, commenting that Junior just named eight people he had to share with.
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Panic Room / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Panic Room / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: One of the main reasons why this film even started. Junior miscalculated when the house would be sold resulted in Meg and Sarah moving in at the exact night the robbery was going to take place, which ends up with the women locked in the panic room... where the money turns out to be. Raoul wasn't even supposed to be in the robbery at all, according to Burnham, which makes him a liability especially when it's revealed he brought a gun in what was originally a break-in of an empty house. Things go from Bad To Worse when he kills Junior and forces Burnham to finish the robbery.
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Panic Room / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Panic Room / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Burnham, who goes back to save Meg and Sarah from Raoul.
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Panic Room / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Panic Room / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Movie: Aside from a very brief prologue and epilogue, the movie takes place over one night and within the house.
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Panic Room / int_65bc52c5	type	The Key Is Behind the Lock
Panic Room / int_65bc52c5	comment	The Key Is Behind the Lock: The movie's premise is basically this, but one bit highlights this in particular. When trying to lure out Meg and Sarah by filtering propane gas into the panic room, Burnham warns Raoul not to crank the gas too high. When Junior scoffs that the worst that can happen is that Meg and Sarah pass out, Burnham asks him how they plan to get into the room if the occupants are passed out.
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Panic Room / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
Panic Room / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: Two of the housebreakers accidentally end up taking hostages when the supposedly empty house was occupied earlier than expected, and then find themselves locked in the panic room with a girl about to slip into a hypoglycemic coma. One of them is an Ax-Crazy murderer who talks about needing to kill her since she's seen his face, but the other one does everything he can to prevent her getting hurt. In the end, he gives up his opportunity to escape with the loot so that he can rescue the girl and her mother (who had come pretty close to killing him a couple of times) from his deranged accomplice.
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Panic Room / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Panic Room / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Junior initially intended to pay Raoul a 100,000 fee for helping him steal 3 million dollars. After all the trouble they have to go through when Meg and Sarah barricade themselves inside the panic room, he demands an equal share of a three-way split. However, when it turns out Junior is still fleecing him and the money in the room is closer to 20 million, he shoots Junior.
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Panic Room / int_728d704f	type	Idiot Plot
Panic Room / int_728d704f	comment	Idiot Plot: Burnham builds a door that can be stopped by laser sensors but not by force. After realizing that the house isn't empty, two of the robbers make no attempt to hide their faces with some improvised masks. Meg stretches her arm as far into the propane as possible before setting it on fire. While the robbers rush to unplug the phone line, Meg doesn't tell Stephen's girlfriend about the robbers, but instead disputes with her about getting Stephen on the phone. Meg and Sarah could have sent text messages and hung the cell phone outside the ventilation pipe by the phone cord or a stripe of cloth, where the cell phone has service. The robbers stop watching the panic room door. Then they realize that that was a mistake. Then they repeat the same mistake. When the robbers stop watching the panic room door for the second time, Meg could have left the room, dialed the police on the cell phone, and whispered. Neither Meg nor the robbers realize this. When Sarah is about to die and only the robbers can save her, Meg disobeys their order to leave the gun, and says "fuck you" to the camera. To the robbers who recently lashed out and killed Junior.
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Panic Room / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
Panic Room / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: Meg makes a dash into the bedroom and grabs her cell phone, but the steel-plated walls of the panic room are too thick to get a signal, turning the place into a dead zone.
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Panic Room / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Panic Room / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Invoked. The panic room has cameras around the house, but not audio. When Burnham silently informs Meg and Sarah that he knows they don't have a phone line — rendering their previous threat of having called the cops moot — we then hear Junior say "You're full of sh—" before it cuts to a panic room shot of him swearing silently on camera.
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Panic Room / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Panic Room / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Averted. Junior getting set on fire is portrayed realistically and painfully, as is the instance when the panic room door closes on Raoul's hand, costing him two fingers, although his reaction might add an element Black Comedy to it.
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Panic Room / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Panic Room / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Burnham to Junior:
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Panic Room / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Panic Room / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Junior keeps berating Ax-Crazy Raoul over and over again. Raoul finally ends the bullying with a headshot.
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Panic Room / int_7f933d43	type	Claustrophobia
Panic Room / int_7f933d43	comment	Claustrophobia: Meg has to deal with her fear of small spaces while being locked inside the panic room.
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Panic Room / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Panic Room / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Meg's decision to temporarily leave the panic room to get her cell phone from under her bed would have gone smoothly...had she not decided to run out like a bat out of hell and clumsily reach for her phone in a... panic. She inadvertently knocks over a bed lamp and alerts the burglars, giving them just enough time to interfere with Meg and Sarah's plan to call for help at the last second.
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Panic Room / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Panic Room / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Junior has a one of these, when he discovers to his chagrin that Meg and Sarah are already in the house, he explains that when the realtors told him how many days it would be before they moved in, he assumed they meant business days. Burnham gets one right after when he chastises Junior for his lack of foresight in planning the burglary. Raoul's completely casual murder of Junior. Burnham is understandably horrified.
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Panic Room / int_81939da2	type	MockGuffin
Panic Room / int_81939da2	comment	MockGuffin: Subverted at first, the safe appears to be empty.
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Panic Room / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Panic Room / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: Burnham, who refuses to take physical action ("I told you, I don't hurt people") and intervenes when Junior's and Raoul's tactics get out of hand.
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Panic Room / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Panic Room / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jared Leto as Junior.
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Panic Room / int_8271663b	type	Suspicious Ski Mask
Panic Room / int_8271663b	comment	Suspicious Ski Mask: Raoul wears one during the home invasion. In fact, out of the three home invaders, he is the only one who wears a mask at all. Highlighting his professionalism and experience compared to Burnham and Junior.
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Panic Room / int_88e5066d	type	Trigger-Happy
Panic Room / int_88e5066d	comment	Trigger-Happy: Raoul, although Junior clearly doesn't know just how much of a psychopathic lunatic he really is until it's too late.
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Panic Room / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Panic Room / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Shooting Junior well and truly dead doesn't stop Raoul from putting another bullet into his head, just because he can.
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Panic Room / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Panic Room / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: On top of all the other mistakes he made, Junior tells his fellow burglars that there is 3 million in the safe despite knowing it to be 22 million. It's not stated how much he promised Burnham for his services (he would have probably been content with just covering the legal costs of his custody dispute), but he promised Raoul a paltry 100k for being his hired muscle before the latter negotiates it up to 1/3 of whatever they find. There is no conceivable way he could have kept the loot's true value hidden from them if they succeeded, ensuring that they will turn on him when they do.
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Panic Room / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Panic Room / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Averted, BUT can be interpreted as one if you are unfamiliar with Type 1 Diabetes. The daughter has diabetes, and when in the panic room they try to find food to give her (which would heighten her blood sugar level) as her blood sugar drops; when they can't find any they give her a shot instead. Many unfamiliar with diabetes think this is an INSULIN shot (which is used to lower the blood sugar). However, she is injected with a hormone called glucagon, which is used to quickly raise a diabetic's blood sugar - so the portrayal is accurate, but can easily be taken as a mistake if you are unfamiliar with diabetes.
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Panic Room / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Panic Room / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: There are ten named characters, only six of whom stick around longer than one scene.
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Panic Room / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Panic Room / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Junior and Raoul.
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Panic Room / int_919fe48b	type	I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
Panic Room / int_919fe48b	comment	I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Meg's response when trying to wire the panic room phone into the main line.
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Panic Room / int_931fecec	type	Enclosed Space
Panic Room / int_931fecec	comment	Enclosed Space: Meg and Sarah are trapped in the panic room to hide from the burglars. The burglars can't simply take what they want and leave because the loot they're after is stored in the panic room occupied by the pair. They also barricade the rest of the building to keep the new owners from escaping.
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Panic Room / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Panic Room / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Raoul starts to go off the deep end after having his fingers severed and mangled, but doesn't fully lose it until Meg whacks him in the head with a sledgehammer, knocking him down the stairs and presumably breaking several more bones, opting to try and murder the Altmans instead of getting out with the bearer bonds.
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Panic Room / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Panic Room / int_958a7bef	comment	Layman's Terms: When Sarah is testing the elevator:
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Panic Room / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Panic Room / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Why Junior thought it was a good idea to hire Raoul is anyone's guess, since he had all the help he needed from Burnham and would have been content with leaving him enough to cover his court fees.
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Panic Room / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Panic Room / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: During the climax, Raoul, rather than escape the house with the bearer bonds along with Burnham, decides to stay behind and try to murder Meg, Sarah and Stephen for causing him so much trouble, in spite of his numerous horrible injuries. This comes back to bite him when Burnham decides he can't just leave the Altmans to die.
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Panic Room / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Panic Room / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: See Raoul's Establishing Character Moment.
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Panic Room / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Panic Room / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: This trope is Junior all over. The reason why they are breaking into the home on that specific night is because he knew, when he was putting the plan together, that he had fourteen days to break in before the house was sold, but he thought that it was fourteen business days, not actual days. He also is stupid enough to mutter Too Much Information too loudly around his goons, letting Burnham figure out that they are being stiffed on their cut. And while he made a good call by hiring Burnham, he didn't know that Raoul was a Psycho for Hire looking for a reason to kill. This one costs him his life.
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Panic Room / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Panic Room / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Raoul has his right eye blown out from behind by Burnham.
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Panic Room / int_a681bfc6	type	Amicable Exes
Panic Room / int_a681bfc6	comment	Amicable Exes: Downplayed with Meg and Stephen. When Sarah starts Calling the Old Man Out, Meg tells her not to talk about her father like that, but agrees that the woman he cheated with is a bitch. When she calls him for help in the middle of the night, he immediately comes to her aid and does whatever he can to protect them even after being severely beaten by the burglars.
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Panic Room / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Panic Room / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Raoul, unless he's genuinely angry.
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Panic Room / int_aa0b5ae8	type	Covert Distress Code
Panic Room / int_aa0b5ae8	comment	Covert Distress Code: The cops ask Meg for one if she's being held against her will after the late-night distress call to her husband was cut short. Meg insists she's fine, but her behavior is unconvincing just enough for the cops to call in SWAT once the conversation is over.
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Panic Room / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Panic Room / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Meg, when she notices the three intruders on the panic room's security feeds. Later, Burnham has such a reaction when he can hear Meg trying to ignite the gas. Sarah has a similar reaction when she realizes what her mom is about to do.
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Panic Room / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Panic Room / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: When Meg gets Raoul's gun and points it at the panic room, ready for the bad guys to emerge, there's a shot from her point of view looking down the length of the gun.
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Panic Room / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Panic Room / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Evan, the guy showing Meg around the house at the beginning. Being a smartass is also one of Sarah's defining character traits from the start of the film. Even Raoul gets in the act, when he's still The Stoic.
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Panic Room / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Panic Room / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: By the end of the film, Raoul and Junior are dead and Burnham is arrested. To add insult to injury, as he's being apprehended, he is ordered to open his hands, and that means he must let go of the bearer bonds, which blow away in the storm. An earlier case of it occurs when Burnham tells Junior and Raoul that they were on video tape the moment they got within proximity to the house. It's discovered the VCRs were empty when Burnham and Raoul trick Meg out of the panic room, meaning that at any time, they could have easily left without worrying of leaving videographic evidence.
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Panic Room / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Panic Room / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Meg spends most of the movie in a low-cut tank top.
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Panic Room / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Panic Room / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Junior. It is debatable whether Raoul would have actually let him leave anyway, but muttering loudly to yourself information that shows you've been lying to your fellow criminals is not a good idea.
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Panic Room / int_b5f97c12	type	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears
Panic Room / int_b5f97c12	comment	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Meg shields Sarah's eyes from Junior being killed by Raoul and cradles Sarah's head, with Meg's hand on Sarah's ears, when Stephen is being assaulted.
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Panic Room / int_b7ce5553	type	Didn't Want an Adventure
Panic Room / int_b7ce5553	comment	Didn't Want an Adventure: A villain variation; the house was supposed to be empty when the burglars came.
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Panic Room / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Panic Room / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Burnham is the biggest guy on screen (though he doesn't actually do much fighting), and he is also by far the most intelligent; he shows a level of competence in various fields and a resourcefulness equal to Meg's.
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Panic Room / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Panic Room / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: An exchange between the robbers before the heist: Meg is so bad at this her twelve-year-old daughter has to tell her how, and even then she screws it up. On the other hand... This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: ... she manages this quite well when talking to Stephen's new paramour. Sarah gets one early in the movie when Meg is still feeling down about their family situation.
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Panic Room / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Panic Room / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The fact that a panic room Burnham built is keeping him and his crew from accomplishing their burglary. This is not lost on him.
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Panic Room / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Panic Room / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: How Junior and Raoul meet their ends.
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Panic Room / int_c36d8929	type	Why Didn't I Think of That?
Panic Room / int_c36d8929	comment	Why Didn't I Think of That?: When Raoul sees Meg taking out the cameras with the robbers' sledgehammer, he reacts, "Why the hell didn't we do that?"
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Panic Room / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Panic Room / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Several - one of which being when Meg and Sarah think they might have managed to alert one of their neighbors to their plight... and he simply closes his bedroom blinds in annoyance, believing their signal to be a faulty light.
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Panic Room / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Panic Room / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Junior. He tries to be a criminal mastermind, but the idiot pulls off a barrage of poor decisions, starting with not being able to figure out the exact amount of time he had to pull off the heist and ending with hiring a maniac looking for a reason to kill people... which he gave him by telling him that they were pulling out.
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Panic Room / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Panic Room / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Meg asks Sarah where she learned S.O.S, she replies "Titanic."
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Panic Room / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Panic Room / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Twice. First with the burglars' plan to swap clothes with Stephan to lure Meg out of the safe room. This goes off as well as planned. Second with Meg's plan to lure the burglars' out and to a specific place of her choosing so they'll be trapped between Stephan armed with the gun and her armed with the sledgehammer. While it goes mostly to plan, the predictable happens mainly because Stephan's not able to aim well due to his injuries, and a sledgehammer is a really difficult weapon for a small-framed woman to wield effectively.
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Panic Room / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Panic Room / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: The propane gas the burglars pour into the panic room (which is then lit by Meg) would fall to the ground instead of sticking to the ceiling as it does in the movie.
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Panic Room / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The three burglars are never referred to by their full names, only going by one name each.
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Panic Room / int_cafca250	type	Conscience Makes You Go Back
Panic Room / int_cafca250	comment	Conscience Makes You Go Back: Burnham has the bonds and is leaving the house, but can't bring himself to leave Meg, Sarah and Stephen to die, so he returns and shoots Raoul down.
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Panic Room / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Panic Room / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: ... she manages this quite well when talking to Stephen's new paramour.
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Panic Room / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Burnham. It's revealed that the only reason he took the job was because he needed the money to afford a custody lawyer. In addition, he refuses to harm anyone and is horrified at the lengths his fellow burglars are willing to go to.
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Panic Room / int_d49ce4f8	type	Protect This House
Panic Room / int_d49ce4f8	comment	Protect This House: The whole premise of the movie, with no deviation from the house and its' exterior.
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Panic Room / int_d72b5003	type	Technicolor Fire
Panic Room / int_d72b5003	comment	Technicolor Fire: The propane fire Meg ignites is bright blue.
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Panic Room / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Panic Room / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Burnham wants to leave as soon as he discovers that there are people in the apartment, but Junior talks him into staying. From there it becomes Crime After Crime. After Raoul kills Junior he forced Burnham to finish the job under threat of his life. Junior. It is debatable whether Raoul would have actually let him leave anyway, but muttering loudly to yourself information that shows you've been lying to your fellow criminals is not a good idea.
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Panic Room / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Panic Room / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: Raoul wears a ski mask throughout most of the film, until he removes it in order to put it on Stephen and trick Meg.
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Panic Room / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Panic Room / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Meg will do anything to protect Sarah, even threatening to kill Burnham and Raoul if they let Sarah die. Sarah attempts to return the favor, stabbing Raoul repeatedly with a handful of hypodermic needles when he attacks Meg.
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Panic Room / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Panic Room / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Raoul is a bus driver from Flatbush, and winds up necessitating a SWAT team to come after him.
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Panic Room / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Panic Room / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Meg and Sarah are trapped in the panic room, and the thieves won't leave until they get the money inside. Later, the situation gets inverted: when Meg attempts to get Sarah's diabetes shots, Burnham and Raoul get inside and lock Meg out. However, Meg also has a gun, and there's only one way out of the room.
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Panic Room / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Panic Room / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Stephen is assumed dead by Meg, until she discovers that, although badly injured, he's still alive.
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Panic Room / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Panic Room / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: A long pan from Meg fitfully dozing down to Burnham trying the front door, then across to him trying the back door and finally right up to the ceiling where he breaks through the skylight.
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Panic Room / int_e90f8e37	comment	Lady Looks Like a Dude: Sarah.
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Panic Room / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Panic Room / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Just as it looks as though Raoul is going to murder Meg while Sarah watches helplessly, Burnham, who was previously making a getaway with the money, returns and shoots Raoul in the head, after deciding that he can't just let Meg and Sarah die.
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Panic Room / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Panic Room / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Burnham changes his mind about splitting with the bonds and goes back to stop Raoul from hurting Meg and Sarah, arriving just in time to shoot Raoul dead as he's about to murder Meg. He gets apprehended by the late-arriving police soon after and is forced to let the bonds scatter to the wind for his troubles.
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Panic Room / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Panic Room / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: When Burnham and Raoul begin to hatch their plan with the propane gas, Junior chimes in from the sidelines, "I was just thinking we should do something like this!"
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Panic Room / int_f44ea9dc	type	Howl of Sorrow
Panic Room / int_f44ea9dc	comment	Howl of Sorrow: Meg lets out a howl of despair and rage when Raoul starts to severely beat Stephen, while all she can do is watch helplessly.
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Panic Room / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Panic Room / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In a rare turn from a David Fincher film, Raoul and Junior are killed, Burnham redeems himself (albeit at the cost of the bearer bonds and is now going to jail) and Meg, Stephen and Sarah survive. Meg and Sarah then start to look for a new house.
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Panic Room / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Junior does toss some money at Raoul and Burnham after deciding to give up and go home (albeit in a somewhat condescending fashion). Burnham also treats Sarah out of her system shock, even though Raoul is more than happy to leverage her health for their escape, including her death if necessary.
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Panic Room / int_ff933645	type	Evil Duo
Panic Room / int_ff933645	comment	Evil Duo: Burnham thought he and Junior were going to be this; Junior would have the plan, Burnham the expertise. Junior didn't tell him he was going to bring backup in the form of Raoul.
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