Taking Lives Trivia Quiz

Answer: Angelina Jolie

Angelina plays the character Illeana Scott, the FBI profiler who gets called in from Washington D.C. to aid the French-Canadian police on a serial killing case. She was chosen for this role after starring in "The Bone Collector" with Denzel Washington.

There she played a rookie cop with a knack for investigation. She says that "Taking Lives" interested her a lot because bodies have always interested her (she wanted to be a mortician if she wasn't an actress) and she thought the plot was well written.

Answer: FBI Profiler

Illeana Scott is a criminal profiler in this film. She is called in because the police have no leads on this killer. The M.O. is the same as the last body that turned up, so the authorities think it may be a serial killer. A profiler is someone, usually in the FBI, who helps local authorities develop a case that they have no leads on.

Their primary role is to create a profile of what the killer is like, based on the characteristics of a crime scene - what he did to his victims and how he did it. With that information they begin to understand what the killer's personality is like and the reasons behind the killing.

Answer: Martin Asher

Martin Asher is his REAL name, James Costa is just the name of his last victim. She meets Asher-Costa - in the interrogation room where he is claiming to be the witness to one of the killings. At first their relationship is strictly professional, but as time goes on they become more intimate.

This begins to happen as she becomes more and more conviced that he's not part of the murders. Ethan Hawke plays the serial killer that Illeana starts to fall in love with, before she knows who he really is. Ethan Hawke has also played roles in the films "Gattaca" and "Training Day."

Answer: Montreal, Canada

This movie was actually filmed in Canada where the directors, Mark Canton and Bernie Goldmann, pursued French-Canadian actors Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo and Jean-Hugues Anglade to support Angelina Jolie in the film.

Answer: Lying in a grave

She is lying in the grave where one of the bodies was found. She would often try to get in the mind of the killer to understand why he was doing things the way he was. This is one of her ways of doing that.

Answer: French

They are speaking French during some parts of the film, because they think that Illeana cannot understand them. That is until she speaks it right back to them, leaving them feeling foolish and outsmarted.

Answer: In the ceiling

She sees a crack in the tile above the killer's bed and is investigating, when the dead person's head flops down on her. It has been hidden there along with some other trophies from previous victims - like a finger.

Answer: Pictures of the dead victims

She puts the pictures of the deceased all over the table in front of her, and also tapes them onto the chairs to look at while she's dining. This is done because the director was trying to show the audience how Illeana gets into her job, and almost becomes both the killer and the victim in order to solve the case. She eats, sleeps and breathes the case until it's solved.

Answer: In an elevator

Martin kills his mother in the hospital elevator. He resents her for always favoring Reese when he was younger. He says that all he ever wanted to do was love her.

Answer: She faked a pregnancy

After she finds out that the man she slept with is the killer, Illeana creates a fake life so he will come to her and she can kill him. She pretends to leave the FBI and retire somewhere rural. Then she fakes her pregnancy and lures him there, where she kills him.