Headscratchers / The Harder They Fall (2021)

• Why was Lt. Gen. Abbot's son wandering around the passenger cars after the train came to an unscheduled stop in the middle of the desert? Shouldn't he and the rest of the soldiers have taken that as a good indication the train was being invaded, since they were guarding an infamous outlaw gang leader?
• How does General Price expect to get away with orchestrating a mob assassination on a lieutenant general of the US Army, the second highest rank in the military at the time? The ten-man prisoner transfer is so outrageously below Abbott's station that the fact that he was killed during it would effectively make it public knowledge that the whole fiasco was a deliberate political assassination.
• How did Cherokee Bill expect to kill Abbott and his men if he hadn't stumbled across Abbott's son by sheer luck? Did he expect to just blast it out with military veterans who outnumbered and outgunned him?
  • This is a Western, so he probably WAS expecting a shootout. And given Cherokee Bill shows a lot of Combat Pragmatism later on, he would clearly have no problem either using the civilian passengers as shields, or just filling them with lead.
    • He seems to be too much of a combat pragmatist to plan to fight the soldiers at a disadvantage, especially since Rufus might have been caught in the middle of any gunfight. It's also unlikely that he thought the soldiers would care about saving random bystanders, given that they'd all perpetuated crimes against humanity as part of a death squad. The only reason Abbott surrenders is because their hostage is his son.
    • Perhaps they cared more about the ATTEMPT to free Rufus than getting out alive? After all, the first thing he does when he's set free is give Trudy and Bill a Headbutt of Love. And it's not like Rufus would fear dying himself, since he set up a years-long Thanatos Gambit with Nat.