 PLOT: In the opening scene, where Charles Kane whispers "Rosebud",  he is on his own in the room and the nurse enters a couple of  seconds after he dies. Nobody could hear him whisper the word, so  how do the news reporters know that "Rosebud" was the last word  Charles Kane said before he died? The scene in which the reporter,  Mr. Thompson, is interviewing Charles Kanes butler, the Butler says  directly to the reporter that Mr. Kane had dropped the snow globe  and said "Rosebud", but that Mr. Kane said nothing more after this  and that the Butler knew then that he was dead. The plot hole  actually lies in the fact that we do not see the butler in the  scenes of Mr. Kanes death, only the nurse, who, indeed, appears  after he says "Rosebud."