Why Did They Go With The 'Alive Doll' Story?

[smngry]

You say it as though the police were tearing to her apartment as those events unfolded, allall murders pointing to her being the killer.

The police need never have known about what went down at the apartment. Nobody died at the apartment besides Maggie very early on, which could easily be ruled accidental by the homicide team, of which Mike and Jack were a part of.

And your 'person next to me killing somebody' thing. You have a point as you are talking about an actual person that you could pinpoint and claim to have witnessed commit the act. Change that person for a doll sitting on your shelf right now. Imagine it went across the road and killed somebody. Are you seriously telling me that you'd kill it, and with nobody any wiser, take it to the police and tell them it was the doll? With nothing whatsoever pointing the finger at you, you'd voluntarily surrender yourself to police and accuse an inanimate object of carrying out the heinous crimes?

[blah]

Someone needs to be held accountable for the wounds and the gunshots and the overall ruckus.

Two characters already did exactly what you wanted: they swept it under the rug. The other two didn't. Oh well.

[smngry]

Accountable for which wounds and gun shots exactly?

[smngry]

You didn't answer my question either. Would you volunteer yourself to police, and blame a doll of committing a series of murders? better yet, would you expect them to believe you?

[blah]

Mike's. Jack's. The gunshots in the apartment that killed Chucky.

Yes, I would blame the doll. No, I wouldn't expect them to believe me. They'd probably keep going "No, REALLY, what happened?" and then I'd go the Mike and Jack route.

[smngry]

You're relying on somebody outside the apartment reporting these gunshots. The wounds could be explained in many fictitious ways, I'm sure Mike and Jack could think of something. At that moment when CP1 ends... Nobody but those four people are aware of what has gone down. The first thing the police will know of it all is when one of those four people open their mouths. If they don't open their mouths, then they could easily throw chucky's remains in a river and carry on as though he never existed. Nobody would be any the wiser. Maggie's death us ruled an accident, Andy's finger prints aren't found on the aparatus that killed the doctor, and the other deaths are completely unrelated to the Barclays.

That's my opinion anyway.

You have every right to disagree

[Spanky]

Yeah I definitely see what you mean smngry. I mean would it have been the "right" thing for them to do, in terms of morality and lawfulness? Probably not. But as you said, they ruled Maggie's death an accident, probably same with Eddie's. Mike and Jack could have covered up a lot if they wanted to, and prevented a mess from occurring. It would have made them "dirty cops" to some extent, but it's 100% possible, and plausible.

[smngry]

Well, this is only another way this could possibly have played out. Ok, we wouldn't have had a sequel, but the Barclays would have lived happily. Because how would chucky have ever come back? With nobody knowing of his doll-like existence he'd have remained dead

[Spanky]

Pretty much, there would have been know "Boy blames doll for murder" newspaper articles that helped Tiffany find him.

[sweetface]

What you're saying makes a lot of sense but I think a lot of it had to do with Karen as a character. She was very loyal to her son and I doubt she'd be the kind of person to suddenly decide to lie and say it wasn't the doll considering how she straight up told Mike that Andy wasn't lying after Chucky first attacked her. She wasn't afraid to be completely on her son's side and try to show that he was telling the truth, no matter how crazy it might have sounded.

As for why the other two cops lied at first... maybe they were just panicking and couldn't come up with a good enough story for what happened in the apartment quick enough and a legit excuse as to why they so suddenly decided Andy wasn't crazy. And then after they got over their panic, they decided to do the "smart" thing.

I dunno, that's just how I see it.

[smngry]

Yeah, I get why she did it to a degree Sweetface.

I'm just saying she could have saved her and Andy so much hurt if they'd have just thrown the doll in a canal and moved on. Lol

[Dragon Prime]

Maybe they didn't think of it at first. Perhaps Mike and Jack were on her side but then come court day... they back out. Naturally they wouldn't have thought to cover up anything to begin with.

Also, who to say they did it out of free will. For all we know their supervisor could have said "change your story now... your badges and pensions are in jeopardy" so they played along to save face in the eyes of their department.

Again... I'd like to see how Mike Norris lives with that kind of guilt today.

[Spanky]

Well the post-credits scene in Curse implies Karen and Mike are together in some sort of relationship, so I'd assume he's doing okay, but nobody really knows.

[Dragon Prime]

Perhaps... or maybe she changes his diapers at a home. Perhaps in the end it was real madness that got a hold of him.

[Spanky]

Yeah though if I recall correctly, in CP2 didn't they say Mike kind of backed out on supporting Karen? Now if that's true, why would Karen want anything to do with him? That would make me not like someone very much if they pulled the chair out from under me like that.