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No Way Out (1987 film)

Hello everyone! Can anybody help me with this issue:

I've got some questions and comments respectively, concerning the witnesses to Farrell's affair and Farrell's secret call before that:

"Donovan brought two witnesses to the Pentagon who had seen "Yuri" with Susan during their romantic weekend. Their description was of an average man and they were led through the Pentagon to identify him."

That sentence was confusing for me since the witnesses are led to Donovon to "give a full description of" the lover; they don't know yet that this one is working in the Pentagon, right? – So why should they then be led through the Pentagon to identify "Jury"?! Also, Farrell's clandestine phone call (to whom???) before the recognition by the witnesses is not mentioned.

I'd be very glad about any comments! Best regards--Hubon (talk) 19:06, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

As I read the article, the witnesses were brought to the Pentagon to meet Donovan, and while there they see Farrell by chance. —Tamfang (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

You are making an assumption about the meaning of that phrase, which is not necessarily what it means. You have assumed that the reason for leading them through the Pentagon was in order for them to identify the person. It can equally mean that they were led through the Pentagon (for no particular reason) and that led to them identifying the person concerned, more or less by chance. Wymspen (talk) 13:27, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! I understood this section quite similarly, which is why I already changed the wording. Yet, it still remains unclear to me whom Farrell called before being exposed by the witnesses.--Hubon (talk) 17:26, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Wymspen, how do you disagree with me? —Tamfang (talk) 04:05, 12 July 2016 (UTC)