O final original deveria acontecer no Paraguai. O relatório original sobre a atitude de Jaime Foxx e a mudança de finais foi de um artigo do Slate .
Mann had to rewrite the ending, eliminating a version that was to have been shot in Paraguay
A única outra informação que pude encontrar no final original é de um artigo da Entertainment Weekly .
The plan had been to shoot for a few days in a local mall and then for three weeks in an abandoned building outside town, where they'd film a climactic gun battle that was said to rival the finale of Heat in scope and ambition.
"There was a list. Two hundred and thirty-six line items of weapons, ammunition, and explosives for that scene," says Donehoo. "And of course, the State Department bureaucracy was not in a big hurry to hand out export permits for a bunch of AK-47s into the area known for its relationship with Hamas and Hezbollah. So that was a trick."