Headscratchers / The Fast and the Furious (2001)

• Why do Kevin Tran and his cousin commit the drive-by murder of Jesse over a car? The police were probably already watching them, apart from them both being pretty crazy people.

• Dom owns a grocery store. He makes an assload of money in the illegal street races. He fixes cars and presumably has a stake in the film's auto parts shop. Why does he need to hijack trailers full of electronics? Seems rather pointless, and rather out of character for him.
  • I thought Brian explained it pretty well when he said to Dom, "I know there's no way in hell you're paying for all the stuff that's under the hood of those cars by doing tune-ups and selling groceries." We can only assume that smuggling or whatever they're doing with the stolen electronics is far more lucrative than his "day job" and that the bulk of his funds come from it.
  • Small businesses like the store and garage are often cash strapped, with owners being the last people to get paid.

• Was it really necessary for Brian to blow his cover when he called 911? It didn't seem to be of any benefit for getting a quicker emergency response.
  • He had already blown his cover when he told Mia earlier that he was a cop, and needed her help to save Dom. It would have made no sense for him to not call in the quickest backup possible, when she would have told everyone that he was a cop anyways.

• Why did Tran have an absolute assload of legitimately bought DVD players stored in his garage? Did he give them away as party favours, or are his anger issues that bad he smashes them up and has buy in bulk?