FAQ

"Jack Rippner" sounds somewhat like "Jack (the) Ripper" and therefore is slightly sinister.

Jack the Ripper, of course, is an infamous serial killer of late 19th century London whose true identity has been the subject of wild speculation to this day.

While on a red-eye flight from Dallas, Texas to Miami, Florida, Lux Atlantic Hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is forced to participate in her charming seatmate Jackson Rippner's (Cillian Murphy) plot to assassinate Homeland Security Deputy Secretary William Keefe (Jack Scalia), who is staying at the Lux Atlantic. If Lisa doesn't comply, her father Joe (Brian Cox) will be killed by a hit man who is already stationed outside the house waiting to hear from Jackson. However, Lisa is 35,000 feet above ground with nowhere to run for help.

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He either had connections or he found out what seat she was in by following her so that he could ask for the seat next to hers when he bought his ticket.

He wants her to use the in-flight phone to call the hotel and have them move the Keefes from their usual secure room 3825 to suite 4080, which faces on the harbor. Lisa tries to convince Jackson that she doesn't have that authority, but he knows better and orders her to make the call. Under duress, Lisa makes the call, explaining to her assistant Cynthia (Jayma Mays) that there is a plumbing problem in 3825 and authorizing her to make the move.

This is unknown. However, Jackson says that he never lies, so this could confirm that he did kill his parents.

Lisa was raped. She says to Jackson, "It happened in a parking lot ~ the scar. Two years ago, in the middle of the day. He held a knife to my throat the whole time. Ever since I've been trying to convince myself of one thing over and over...." . Director Craven confirms this in the commentary.

Lisa stabbed Jackson in the windpipe, which is nowhere near the carotid arteries nor the jugular veins which run up the sides of the neck. His wound was not life-threatening.

The best guess is that, like Lisa, he stole a car. At the beginning of the film, the father on the phone says it's just 5 minutes from the airport to home.

Jackson was not the assassin; he was just the manager of the operations. He was the thinker. It was his job to set everything up. Lisa fought back. She wasn't physically stronger, but mentally stronger she was. She was more cunning than him in the end.

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