When a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him, the father desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear.
Writers often resort to making characters very stupid and/or suddenly behave uncharacteristically dumb just to drive the plot forward or to force a sequence together, instead of rebuilding or abandoning the idea.
"Bagman" is one of those scripts that should've been thrown away early on, but instead they stupidly forced through.
It wouldn't be a movie without it.I won't list all the times parents behaved irrationally and dumb, but let's say; if you're a normal sane human being with a child who was in danger of being abducted, you would keep it at arms length 24/7.
They make sure to always put their kid in danger, giving it away to others and pretty much always make sure to keep it far out of reach and out of sight — just to make this movie possible.