QHow did Catherine get Thomas' keys and get them back to him without him knowing?
AWhen they were in the museum, she says it's cold so Crown puts his jacket on her shoulders. She grabs his keys from his coat and puts it on a display stand. One of the cops in disguise takes it from the stand. Thomas and Catherine go to dinner, and the cop brings the original keys to the restaurant. Later, as she kisses Thomas goodnight, Catherine slips his keys back into his pocket.
AThe thieves came into the museum in a hollow statue of a horse that they called a 'Trojan horse.' This is in reference to the end of the Trojan War in Greek mythology in which the Greeks pretended to retreat and left behind a huge wooden horse filled with soldiers. When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, they believed the war was over and dragged the horse inside the city. The following night, the Greeks left the wooden horse and attacked the unsuspecting Trojans, subsequently conquering Troy.
QWas it ever explained how Thomas got the Impressionist room 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the museum in order to block the cameras?
AAfter the thieves cut the wires on the air conditioning unit, the temperature in the Impressionism wing would begin to rise, commensurate with the fact that it was a hot day as mentioned in the movie. The numbers of warm bodies in the room would also add to the buildup. Some viewers have suggested that the direct sun from the overhead skylight would act like a greenhouse and further increase the heat. It was curious, however, that the same lack of air conditioning and buildup of ambient heat still allowed images to show up on the cameras, whereas the camera in the Monet room was a total washout, suggesting that there was an additional heat source somewhere in that room. When Catherine discovered 'the third leg', the briefcase under the bench that Thomas planted during an earlier visit and in which he later carried out the Monet, she theorized that it might have held a compact heater. If the heater was not in the briefcase, it was elsewhere in the room (e.g., the air duct).
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