How did Dylan Rhodes guarantee that FBI would give him the task to arrest the magicians?
Big spoilers up ahead. You have been warned.
Early on in the movie, Dylan Rhodes was given the task to track down and arrest the Four Horsemen, a task he begrudgingly accepts. However, at the end of the movie, it was revealed that he himself is the mastermind of the entire scheme. His role in the scheme is to serve as the FBI agent, presumably to reduce the unpredictable variables and to observe the magicians firsthand. My question is, how had he guaranteed that he would be chosen for this assignment? What if he had not been picked? Was he purely relying on sheer luck that when the time comes, he would be the person chosen for the job?
EDIT: Apparently, it is possible to "influence" people's thoughts, but it doesn't explain everything.
Best Answer
It is simply a plot contrivance used by the writers to make the film's narrative, viable.
There is no way that he could have been expected to be the agent put on the case and the film offers the audience nothing that would explain why it happened. You, the viewer, are simply supposed to "go with" the fact that an agency with over 14k worth of personnel would place that particular person in that that particular case.
Since film would not have "worked" had this not occurred, it appears that this is simply a narrative device to make the remainder of the film possible.
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Answer 2
Nothing is said about other Officers maybe he planned the timing so that the entire branch of officers had some case and only he was without one, this way when the case came up, he was the only one that could have taken it as he had already planned.
Answer 3
It's quite simple...since he is very meticulous he made sure he solved all the cases to rise to become a good agent....maybe he solved others cases before and made sure all the agents of his office under the jurisdiction of the crime is busy which will lead him to be the one assigned to the case..... Plus he tells his boss he is just a month away from arresting a mobster...so he is really very cunning.
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