History Headscratchers / Taken

*** Except, you know, that he proceeds to do ''exactly that''. He doesn't get all the customers, but he kills the Albanian suppliers and the ringleader (and most of {{Mooks}}, too).

*** To be fair, there's that one scene where he takes one girl from a brothel in ([[spoiler:she had a jacket that her daughter was wearing the last time he saw her]]), and you could tell just by the look on his face as he was cleaning out the drugs from her system that he felt bad for her. I mean, it's not like he doesn't care about other girls being sold on the market, but the important thing was '[[PapaWolf My baby's missing, and I'm kicking ass just to get her back]]'.

* The villains switch from [[spoiler:smuggling in and enslaving illegal immigrants]] to [[spoiler:kidnapping several rich white foreigners PER DAY]], and from [[spoiler:luring their targets to abandoned buildings]] to [[spoiler:nabbing them out of their rooms WHILE THEY ARE ON THE PHONE]].
** In regards to [[spoiler:switching over to rich white foreigners]], this troper's International Perspectives on Women professor (who saw this movie on this troper's recommendation while we were covering sex-trafficking in class) claimed that this [[RealityIsUnrealistic made sense]] because [[spoiler:said foreigners are going to have a much healthier pedigree than poorer European women and fetch a higher price from wealthier clients]].

*** No it wasn't, [[spoiler:remember how the auctioneer referred to her? "As usual, we've saved the best for last"]], and she was clearly doped up.

*** Because after he invited them to the Party, they proceed to tell him they are alone, and where they live inside the building. We need a translator, but I guess he then told his peeps: "Hey, let´s just grab em right there, nobody will know." or does so off screen. It could also just have been a thing to keep the "friendly" facade...

* Nothing is ever done to show if [[spoiler:Amanda's family was ever notified of their daughter's murder by overdose, or what actions they took if they were.]]

* It's never really made clear [[spoiler:how long it took Bryan and Kim to get back to America, considering Bryan's all bandaged up and would have possibly needed to chat with the French authorities about that long list of murder victims he's tallied up.]]
** The implication is that [[spoiler:the entire French legal system in this regard is corrupt. In that scenario it makes more sense for the French to let Bryan leave quietly and quickly, since if he was brought up on charges the whole story had a good chance of coming out, not to mention the diplomatic implications for the US and France at large given Bryan's former occupation.]]
** I'd like to know how they even got off the ''boat!'' Presumably it had a crew separate from all the mooks. [[spoiler:Did Bryan kill them too, or were they OK with just dropping Bryan and Kim off after he'd explained why he'd just murdered their employer and all his bodyguards?]]
** [[spoiler:The crew can maybe bar brawl but do you want to fight with a man who just single handedly murdered almost everyone on board? Lifeboats are also a possibility, they weren't that far from shore if I remember it right.]]
* Nor have there been any mention of [[spoiler:Jean-Claude. Was he arrested or kicked out of the department for his connections to the traffickers? What did his wife think of her husband now that she knew of his connections?]]
*** [[spoiler:Jean-Claude]] never had any connections to the traffickers; he was aware that his boss was involved, but was only too happy to look the other way.

** Probably [[spoiler:Jean-Claude greased the wheels to get it all covered up. And the wife doesn't really get the ''whole'' story from Bryan, he probably talked his way out of it.]]

*** He aborted a mission once just to visit his daughter...he got reassigned to Alaska for that. It´s not like he didn´t want to, it's more like that he would see her LESS if he tried to see her more.

** read about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley Amy Lynn Bradley. she disappeared from a freaking cruise ship and was seen over the years by various people who she begged for help, but nobody did on time and she eventually disappeared completely. that's the most depressing story I ever heard

** All of this is sort of moot on the basis that the auctioneer was astounded at the $500,000 sum, and [[TheDragon]] acting on behalf of the Sheikh didn't want to pay that much either -- it was Bryan who reached over and thumbed the button. In fact, reading probably a little too far into it, the Sheikh would have been ''pissed'' if he had overpaid for a sex slave, and so wanted to have her immediately to verify whether she was worth it... and/or whether the Dragon's head would roll, since there's no way he would have kept it had he spent that much of the Sheikh's money without telling his boss what happened.

** All of this is sort of moot on the basis that the auctioneer was astounded at the $500,000 sum, and the [[Dragon]] acting on behalf of the Sheikh didn't want to pay that much either -- it was Bryan who reached over and thumbed the button. In fact, reading probably a little too far into it, the Sheikh would have been ''pissed'' if he had overpaid for a sex slave, and so wanted to have her immediately to verify whether she was worth it... and/or whether the Dragon's head would roll, since there's no way he would have kept it had he spent that much of the Sheikh's money without telling his boss what happened.