I have a question about the 1999 movie "Suicide Kings" with Christopher Walken?

Question

Even after seeing this movie quite a few times, I still don't see how the cat is tied to the plot.

When Denis Leary and Walken go into the "kidnappers' " motel room and ask for the girl, they think the guys are lying because they hear sounds coming from the closet. They kill the guys only to find that a CAT was making the noise. They realise then that the so-called kidnappers knew nothing about the girl. How does the cat tie in? Or is that a deliberate loose end?

Answer 1

That cat was what the kidnappers were told to take in place of Elise.

Answer 2

The cat was just a cat and I think the noise he made was just there to have reason enough to kill the guys.

"Dennis Leary, the bosses assistant finally finds where he believes the girl is being held and by whom. In the scenes real kicker Dennis Leary moves in on two men he believes to be the kidnappers of the girl. They say they know nothing and the whole thing was a gag for money. Dennis Leary doesn’t buy it and kills them and then discovers that they were being truthful and they were not kidnappers at all. After a quick look around and a brief expression hinting at some regret he proclaims "Lets go." It seems the teenage kidnappers has been playing the mob boss and his lieutenant for a fool.
A boyfriend and girlfriend planned the whole thing including faking a kidnapping in the hopes of making money. They drag their friends into this which respond by kidnapping a mob boss and torturing him. When the old mob boss is freed he and his associates hunt down the two teenagers that played this trick on them. Its in the river with the fishes for them."

Answer 3

As much as i love this movie, there were a couple of things i never got and the cat was one of them. I chalked it up to it just being a cat in the closet. Otherwise, i'd go completely insane trying to figure it out.

Answer 4

it doesnt it was just a cat in the closet