Why does detective Loki visit the priest?

Why does detective Loki visit the priest? - Brown Wooden House on Green Grass Field Near Green Trees and Mountains

In the movie Prisoners (2013), detective Loki visits a priest while looking for potential kidnaping suspects. When Loki visits the drunk and sleeping priest he finds a mummified body in his basement.

What leads does Loki have to facilitate his visit to this priest?



Best Answer

Loki is investigating other leads, after the police chief basically tells him that Alex Jones can't be the guilty party. One of those leads is a known pedophile priest who lives in the area, and since it was two children who were abducted, it's not a bad guess when you need to leave no stone unturned.




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Who was the guy in the priests basement in Prisoners?

Pursuing other leads, Loki discovers a corpse in the basement of Patrick Dunn, a priest. Dunn admits that he killed the man because the man confessed he was "waging a war against God" and had killed 16 children and said that he would kill more.

What was the point of the maze in Prisoners?

In actual mind control, mazes are an important trigger image that accurately represents a slave's mind state. \u201cMaze maps\u201d are programmed into the victim's internal world to keep them from accessing their core/true personality.

Did Detective Loki find Keller?

There was an original ending where Loki moves the car and finds Keller but the filmmakers changed it on purpose and the studio ultimately left it as is. The ending does show that Loki hears the whistle, but we don't see him actually find Keller.



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