Did he kill Caleb?

really !!!you spoil the movie for me , as soon as i open the IMDB page saw your comment, no need to open msg board, your question is shown on main page, are you familiar by spoiler alert

Obviously it was unconfirmed but I gotta say, Caleb was a duntz for slipping multiple times. He was saved once and then slips again after John took the cable off the pulley.

That's just tempting fate too unabashedly.

Of course. How is that even a question?

While I am ultimately unsure, I felt that Caleb may have left because John saved his life, not once, but twice in a row. As jealous as John may have been, I do not feel that he would have let Caleb die.

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All the arguments given, and all the action in the film, and all of the characterization, are consistent with the idea that two posters have put forward. Loomis lets Caleb live on the condition that Caleb leaves. And it's actually unclear how realistic Anson as a refuge is, so asking him to leave is not a death sentence, but it might be.

Caleb understands that the trio cannot live together, and that Loomis' demand is pragmatic and not unreasonable. He chooses a 50-50 chance of survival over death.

Loomis understands the same thing about the trio dynamic, of course. He gets to take Caleb out of the picture without the extreme guilt of having killed him, and he avoids the enormous hassle of having to get rid of the body. As an engineer, he's going to be smart enough to think of this solution.

Loomis does feels some guilt over sending Caleb off with little or nothing in the way of provisions, but he knows it was a necessary and pragmatic choice. He doesn't like to lie to Ann, so he gets to tell her truthfully that Caleb has chosen to leave.

Caleb probably asked Loomis if he could at least go back and get his stuff, and Loomis knew himself well enough to realize that if he let him do that, he might lose his resolve to do what he needed to do. So he said no. And Caleb did tell him that Ann could have the stuff he left behind -- perhaps because he felt a little guilt for using Ann sexually, aware the whole time that she had a deeper emotional connection to Loomis (although a stronger physical attraction to him, and a more natural connection due to their shared background).

So Loomis gets to tell Ann the truth.

Ann does understand that Caleb would not leave willingly, and surmises that there was some confrontation where Loomis forced Caleb to leave. And that it's for the good. But it's tinged with melancholy and regret, nevertheless.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

Most likely, yes.

Him leaving all of a sudden and without any of his stuff makes litte sense.


When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.

Sure he did. Given an opportunity as he was he saw his chance and let go of the roap. Then after Caleb had fallen and was dead picked up the roap dragged him up and probably buried him. If he had´nt Caled would probably have killed him soon after. The only reason he did´nt before was for that wheel to be built something Caleb did´nt know how to build on his own. Loomis must have known that being also more of a spotter of bad men than the more naive Ann. Caleb were working her on the notion that Caleb was the odd man out.

I think the first time Caleb slipped, the already worn out costume must have broken and he got some water into his boots. Since he had already received some radiation before (his lips were badly burnt), perhaps Caleb thought he wasn't going to live too long. So he decided to leave.