plot explanation - How did Angier know not to appear in The Prestige? - Movies & TV

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In The Prestige, the secret to
Angier's 'Real Transported Man' trick is that he is effectively cloned while
teleporting, and the original Angier is drowned when disappearing under the
stage.

When Alfred Borden went behind
the stage to investigate the trick and find out Angier's secret (and discovering Angier
dying in the water tank), he was accused of murdering
Angier.

But what happened to the transported
'clone' of Angier? If he presented himself as was normal for the trick, no one would've
thought Angier died. So how did the 'clone' know to not appear?

Answer

I guess he just recognized
Borden from the people examining the apparatus while he stood in it
and assumed that he will probably walk behind the stage (or maybe even saw him do
that).

The fact is, that
Angier was at that point in time so much sunken in his wrath
against Borden and the desire to know how his Trasported
Man worked, that he didn't just do those Real Transported
Man shows to make a good show and beat Borden
success-wise. He actually planned this "murder" to happen some day to finally "win"
against Borden, since he knew he would show up one day to look
behind the stage and nobody would doubt that he murdered his enemy. But even if at first
Angier looked like the one that always got framed and played wrong
by Borden (and finally murdered, as is shown at the beginning of
the movie) it was actually always Angier who took this fight from a
job-related competition to a higher level, involving kidnapping and finally murder. This
is also to some degree evident from his dialogue when he
says:

Cutter: What kind of booking are you after? />Angier: The one that Borden can't
ignore.

So he was
prepared for Borden to show up some day and just needed to look out
for him, the rest was already planned out perfectly.