Good eye on the one dollar bills in the satchel. The Bond movie Thunderball had the same thing. In each case the producers didn’t want their prop to mysteriously disappear overnight, and the bills are filmed in such a way that 99% of the audience won’t notice.

Things in this movie I couldn’t suspend disbelief for:
1. Someone who, armed with a submachine gun, coolly looks for drug money to keep for himself (Moss) suddenly has enough conscience to return to the drug-buy-gone-bad scene with water. For all he knows, the place is teaming with cops.
2. A tiny transponder, ensconced within a case no less, that can work at any kind of meaningful distance. A fifth-mile, perhaps? Note that a 20-mile radius encompasses over 1250 square miles of search territory.
3. What did Moss intend to do after sending his wife away to her mother?
4. That Carson, who clearly knew Chigurh only too well, would be such a stumblebum and completely oblivious to his own safety. Even after he spots the money case he returns to the hotel where he could easily be spotted and ambushed, and was. Wasn’t he hired in part to ambush Chigurh, not just to wander around looking for the money and hang out in his hotel room?
5. Ductwork serving a single room with a cross-section sufficient to hide a large satchel. Sorry, but for a living space the size a motel room it’s the GRILLE that may be large in area, not the cross-section of the ductwork that connects to it. This part reminded me of the old Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV series, where in order to thwart the bad guys the actors would crawl through enormous air ducts that connected every compartment in their submarine.
6. A deputy who turns his back on a detainee whose hands are handcuffed in front of (not behind) his body. Sorry, can’t buy it.
7. Chighur able to carry on with his work a short period of time (half a day?) after tending to his wounded leg. What about sepsis, or local infection? Even if he stole antibiotics from the pharmacy, they don’t work instantly.

Room 114 or 112.

I guess his fate/lucky choice saved him from certain peril.

So goes the theme of the story.

[No, she calls him "Ed Tom," which is his name.]

As that has been rehashed I’d like to bring up something else. Bell’s two dreams. Bell told the old man in the wheelchair that God never came into his life. Cut to the end of the movie. It seems as if the first dream of Bell losing money as child was about how when we’re young life is pure and we are indifferent about money/the vices/sins of man. The second dream is more clear to me. Bell’s father was carrying fire ahead of him and Bell knew that he would have a fire waiting for him up ahead in the midst of the cold darkness. That dream was God pointing out to Bell that He’s not going to come to Bell, that Bell has to come to him. He’s up ahead waiting for Bell and that when Bell comes to him(dies) that there will be a warm comforting place ready for him.

Also, when Harrelson says he counted the floors of the building and one is missing he’s referring to the 13th floor that is often left out of floor numbering in the name of good luck/bad luck/fate. Anton showing up there reminds us that our silly ideas and superstitions and wishful thinking are just that.

But what is important about the scene it the glimpse it gives us into Chigurrh’s psychology. It becomes clear he has a moral code, and in fact a very strict one; but one that is very different from that of a normal person. That makes him a truly enigmatic character, and one that would be good to use in a sequel, not necessarily a continuation of Cormac’s story but perhaps a different plot in which we see Chigurrh’s bizarre character in action.

In 1980 the Hunt Brothers were trying to corner the silver market, silver peaked at $54 an oz.. That quarter would be worth $13.50. It would be unnessary to tell the gas station attendant not to mingle that quarter with the silver cladded copper slug 1965 – 1980 quarters.