David McCloskey

Maybe two reasons, maybe three.

The first one is I think it's logistically more complicated because you have to think about what compartment are they being smuggled out in?

Is that a boat or is that a car?

It's six people.

Do you need multiple vehicles?

All of a sudden, the logistics train to accomplish that becomes complicated.

So that's one reason.

I think the second reason is if you're caught...

You're dead.

Yeah.

And it's a massive flap.

The third reason is that Mendez maybe is a bit of recency bias here, but it makes sense.

Mendez has just successfully walked someone eight or so months earlier out of the airport.

Yeah.

The Raptor case.

But he goes to Hollywood.

Yes, he goes to Hollywood.

I think, not to be a Debbie Downer here, but one of the things that the film leans into very heavily...

is the flamboyancy, the insanity, the over-the-topness of the Hollywood side of this.

I think the reason Mendez picks the Hollywood thing is because he knows that everybody knows a little something about Hollywood and about movies.