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  • Adaptation Displacement : This was based upon the novel Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis. Not a lot of people know that.
  • Complete Monster: Jack Carter
  • Fridge Brilliance : Watch Carter's train journey again. If you look you'll see the assassin, suggesting that he was being tracked right from the start.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Many bands have covered the title music ("Carter Takes a Train") including The Human League.
  • Memetic Mutation : Apparently barmen in Newcastle got sick of being asked for drinks "In a thin glass!".
  • Moral Event Horizon : It's debatable how much you're supposed to root for Carter throughout the movie, but any sympathy for his cause is lost after what he does to Margaret.
  • Narm : Tell me you don't give an involuntary smirk when Michael Caine whispers, "I fancy you." during the phone sex scene.