How did Liam Neeson know his location in Taken 2?
In Taken 2 when Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson, was kidnapped, and calling Kim/Maggie Grace from his locked cell.
He asked her to draw 2 circles, according to the map chart:
One of 3 km from the hotel, and the other of 3 km from the (harbor I think), he then asked her to draw a new one of 4.5 km.
He pointed that his whereabouts are on the eastern point of where the two circles connect.
- How did he get to that (while he was blindfolded - and counting seconds and scenery marks - stupid idea IMO)
- Why did he decide it was the eastern one?
Some more details: If anyone can identify the hotel they Mills stayed in, and the market they were kidnapped - that can assist in identifying Bryan's thoughts.
The whole idea looks weird, as when he was kidnapped, they go over the ferry, but than, when Kim rushes to his aide, he just runs over the rooftops (unless - he was kidnapped, and driven over the river back to the hotel side).
Best Answer
After they were kidnapped Bryan did three things:
- he counted how long it took them to get to where they were using his watch. given an average moving speed of the vehicle you can draw a rough radius from the hotel using this information alone.
- he listened for specific sounds during the trip. this wasn't used for the girl to find him, but instead is later used to find the bad guy's place (where they stopped temporarily).
- he noted the turns they took.
Using 1 and 3, he could get a very good radius on how far from the hotel he was. He somehow messed up though and didn't give a large enough radius from the hotel. I don't remember what the second radius was centered on, I think it was the boats but I'm not 100% sure.
He used the sound of the grenade his daughter set off to refine the radius. He did this by couting from when the grenade went off (which was at the center of the first radius) to went the sound wave got to him. The speed of sound is 340.29 m/s at sea level. It took roughly 4 1/2 seconds to get to him, so he has a roughly known radius of 4.5*340 m from the hotel.
When the two radius intersected, he somehow used the wind to determine he was at the eastern location. This part I am unsure of how he determined which spot he was at.
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what brian did was actually calculate the displacement he travelled from one of the landmark.. So he got an approx distance, as he estimated the speed of vehicle (using sound of engine maybe?), and he counted the time. So distance is speed x time. Plus he noted the turns he made, so it gave him a rough idea of angle. Using simple mathematics (sine rule i guess) to get the displacement. Thats how he got the radius for one of the cirles.. Also, he must be at the circumference as thats his displacement Due to some mistakes, he messed up and made smaller circle with hotel at centre. Then he used grenade as sound travels at speed of nearly 340 m per sec. So, sound took 4.5 secs to get to him. He make another circle using this. Also, he was at cirumference of this circle. Therefore he was at the intersection of two circles. He also noted what turns he made, and so, he guessed he must be at the eastern point. Hope that helped..
Answer 3
Think about the doppler effect where the sound of a car is high coming towards you and then low going away from you. This is because it is first the speed of sound plus the car and then the speed of sound minus the car. Could be the same principle here. He could hear the actual pitch of the blast on the phone - and then if what he heard 4.5 seconds later was higher in pitch, he would conclude he is downwind and if it were a lower pitch he would conclude he is upwind. From that point he just has to ask his daughter which way the wind is blowing.
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