Why not send back dead or drugged people in Looper?
I understand that it would ruin the story but why not shoot the target in the future and then just send back the dead body? Or with their legs broken? Or drugged?
It seems like a lot could go wrong with sending back live targets. If they escape they could kill those people trying to kill them before they're born or as children.
example rainmaker.
In the future they have that cool contact-less-taser. Why not use that, or some sleeping pills. They're sending them back gagged, a peg on the nose would do it!
Best Answer
They send them back because there is no evidence of any murder in the future if the person is sent to the past.
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Answer 2
It all depends on statistics. Organized crime is, well, organized, and in many aspects acts just like a big corporation, so costs reductions is a never fading goal.
If in overwhelming majority of cases it's enough to just tie somebody somebody up - why make things more complicated and introduce some trickier procedures?
Answer 3
Writer/director Rian Johnson explained it to Slashfilm:
How does murder work in the future? Why can’t the mobsters kill there and what happens when Joe’s wife is killed?
The film mentions briefly mentions that, in the future, tracking technology stops murders from happening. But we explicitly see Joe’s wife murdered in the future. Johnson said this was one of several things he worked out in his head but didn’t put in the movie because it felt superfluous to the story. He instead explained it to us.
“Everybody in the movie has this nano technology tracking in their body and whenever there’s a death, a location tag is sent to the authorities from this tracking material. So they can’t kill people in the future. But if they send them back, that is not triggered.” He continues, “The material is powered off the body’s heat and it has a two year life after the person dies.” As for the wife, that was a big mistake made by the mobsters and the reason we see the shot of the village burning is that’s their half-assed attempt to cover it up.
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