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* TheCon: Joe spends the whole film trying to figure out what con he's been a victim of. The titular "Spanish Prisoner" con is but a foreplay to one of them.
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* TheCon: Joe spends the whole film trying to figure out what con he's been a victim of. The titular "Spanish Prisoner" con is but a foreplay to one of them. [[spoiler: It turns out that everything that's gone on has been a giant con to steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist. And just about everyone was in it, too]]. Unlike typical scam story, TheReveal happens half-way through, forcing Joe to [[ClearMyName clear his name]].
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Everything that's gone on has been a giant con to [[spoiler: steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist. And just about everyone was in it, too]]. Unlike typical scam story, TheReveal happens half-way through, forcing Joe to [[ClearMyName clear his name]].
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that [[spoiler:Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, it's clear that almost literally no one but the protagonist has been telling the truth about anything. The whole thing has been a con within a con within a con.]]
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, it's clear that almost literally no one but the protagonist has been telling the truth about anything. The whole thing has been a con within a con within a con.]]
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: US Marshalls were clued in to the whole scheme from the start, when Jimmy has Joe cornered on the boat two "tourists" come to the rescue]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that [[spoiler:Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on.]]
When they tried to set him up at airport, he left just as the "camera" (really a gun to alert security) went through the x-ray]].
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, it's clear that Joe had been set up by almost literallyno one but everyone close to him in order to get him to deliver the protagonist has been telling process and set him up to take the truth about anything. fall. The whole thing has been a con within a con within a con.con, which makes a second viewing more interesting.]]
* DidntSeeThatComing: Almost everything that happened was planned out, but the plotters didn't predict that [[spoiler:Joe would just happen to hang on to a book that one of them left fingerprints on.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, it's clear that Joe had been set up by almost literally
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* ItWasHereISwear: [[spoiler: Once Joe is caught, he leads them to all the places that Jimmy took him, to find them totally different. Jimmy's house is abandoned, and the private club they went to was a family restaurant.]]
* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler: It becomes evident that almost everyone introduced in the film had been manipulating Joe into this scheme. Small deviations are treated with more exaggerated responses because they are all [[RailRoading trying to direct him down a particular path]]. Exactly where things went wrong are implied through multiple layers to the scheme (the initial crux of the scheme was to convince Joe that management was going to short change him and convincing him to bring the process to Jimmy and his lawyers, once that didn't go right they created the fake FBI sting to get their hands on the process). It takes until the last few minutes before the audience and Joe are clued into the final piece of the puzzle, where the entire plot is revealed]].
* ItWasHereISwear: [[spoiler: Once Joe is caught, he leads them to all the places that Jimmy took him, to find them totally different. Jimmy's house is abandoned, and the private club they went to was a family restaurant.]]
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* McGuffin: The "process", about which we are told absolutely nothing except that it's worth a lot of money.
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* McGuffin: MacGuffin: The "process", about which we are merely told absolutely nothing except that it's worth this will circumvent something about a lot Japanese investment, it touches upon insider trading and the payoff would be ''a lot'' of money.money. Even the amount of money is not disclosed, only that it takes Joe a few seconds to write it out.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Downplayed as early on Susan expresses an attraction to Joe, who is MarriedToTheJob but polite in dismissing her interest, while she seeks to be a HypercompetentSidekick otherwise. [[spoiler: This was part of the scheme, slowly wear down Joes' support network until he feels she is the only one to turn to, where she delivers the final con and has him take the fall]].
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* TheGhost: Jimmy's sister. The promise of meeting her strings Joe along with Jimmy for a while. We never see what she looks like. The one photograph that Jimmy shows has her face covered by glare. [[spoiler:It turns out she doesn't exist]].
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* TheGhost: Jimmy's sister. The promise of meeting her strings Joe along with Jimmy for a while. We never see what she looks like. The one photograph that Jimmy shows has her face covered by glare. [[spoiler:It turns out [[InventedIndividual she doesn't exist]].exist]]]].
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Everything that's gone on has been a giant con to steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Everything that's gone on has been a giant con to [[spoiler: steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist.protagonist. And just about everyone was in it, too]]. Unlike typical scam story, TheReveal happens half-way through, forcing Joe to [[ClearMyName clear his name]].
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* JapaneseTourist: They appear in a number o f scenes, and Jimmy notes that no one ever pays attention to them. [[spoiler:It turns out that they're U.S. Marshals hiding in plain sight]].
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* JapaneseTourist: They appear in a number o f of scenes, and Jimmy notes that no one ever pays attention to them. [[spoiler:It turns out that they're U.S. Marshals hiding in plain sight]].
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* MametSpeak: But of course. One of the opening scenes, where Joe, Mr. Klein and the other businessmen discuss the process, its applications and value is the best example of it.
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* MametSpeak: But of course. One of the opening scenes, where Joe, Mr. Klein Klein, and the other businessmen discuss the process, its applications applications, and value is the best example of it.it.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Everything that's gone on has been a giant con to steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Everything that's gone on has been a giant con to steal a multimillion-dollar process and pin the theft on the protagonist.
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* MetaCasting: Ricky Jay, a professional magician and expert in charlatans, plays George, Joe's friend and a lawyer. This indicated from the very start he will play important role in the plot. [[spoiler: He's killed instead and Joe is framed for it]].
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* MetaCasting: Ricky Jay, a professional magician magician, and expert in charlatans, plays George, Joe's friend and a lawyer. This indicated from the very start he will play important role in the plot. [[spoiler: He's killed instead and Joe is framed for it]].
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* NiceGuy: Combination of this and {{Pride}} makes Joe a superb target for the scheme, which is entirely tailored around those traits.
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* NiceGuy: Combination A combination of this and {{Pride}} makes Joe a superb target for the scheme, which is entirely tailored around those traits.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon. When Joe finds his friend dead, with a knife in his chest, his first move is to try to grab the knife.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon. BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: When Joe finds his friend dead, with a knife in his chest, his first move is to try to grab the knife.
