Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)/Headscratchers

• So...basically, John's employer and Jane's employer both simultaneously discover that the two are married, and then the two agencies *work together* to concoct an elaborate Batman Gambit wherein the two will kill each other. Why not just call their own agent in for a "regular meeting" in some secure location and then blow the place up while they are inside it? Or, if you really want to get both of them, arrange for both of them to be in the same building at the same time (indoors, not outdoors), and blow it up.
  • That's not how these organizations work. For one thing, to just get them both in the same place and blow it up (which would be fairly sloppy as opposed to the elaborate setups and methods they're usually shown using), and would attract undue attention. When a gun smuggler gets his neck snapped in his hotel room, no one asks "Why?", when two supposedly innocent, normal community members blow up in a terrorist bombing people start asking a lot of questions. But probably a large part of it was that the organizations agreed that it was a problem the agents caused, let the agents sort it out, maybe one of them will still be left with a usable agent at the end of the day. Remember, they're given twenty-four hours to sort it out on their own (IE one of them dies at the other's hands), it's only after that the agencies put a hit out on both of them.
  • Still a bit of a contrivance - if they want to kill one of their own it would be far simpler to do it as a matter of internal discipline. It's a lot easier to kill someone when their guard is down and they're not armed, and where else are these people ever in a condition like that except when in their own office?
    • Especially when you can do things like "OK, your next assignment is in central Africa. You're going to need a booster on your tropic disease vaccines before you go there. Report to the doctor's office." The agency doctor then gives them a syringe full of strychnine, they stroke out, you have your body disposal people vanish the body, and shazam, instant missing persons statistic. No muss, no fuss.
• Oh, while I'm at it -- why did it take "5 or 6 years" for the employers to discover the marriage???
  • Because covering their tracks and not leaving a lot of obvious hints to their profession is what these two do for a living.

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