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Murder most Scandalous plot holes? (warning contains spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by emma_pavitt
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I just finished watching the first episode in the new series. What did everyone think?

I was confused by the ending as there seems to be a plot hole. The doorman said he committed the murder to frame Sanderson the police-commissioner but why murder an innocent girl? and what did he do with the box containing items from the club patrons? where did he get all the money? Also why did Sanderson shoot him when he did?

Lola says that the box contained a lot of trinkets including a police badge purported to belonging to the Commissioner. I think that Sanderson might have shot the doorman to stop this fact being known and someone had paid off the doorman for the box. I believe the doorman carried out the murder/framing on someone else's orders perhaps even the commissioners to cover his going to the club.

Perhaps the story about police corruption will be a running theme throughout the series as this episode wasn't as neatly tied up as I would have liked. What does everyone else think. I can't wait to watch the rest of the series to find out!

[–] AnimeMania 11 years ago

I predict that Detective Jack Robinson's ex-wife's fiance and her father
will end up being arrested by the end of the season.

[–] velcronewsletter 11 years ago

i wanted to know what had happened to the box too. the story didn't seem wrapped up so well. it would have made sense for sanderson to have paid the doorman and lavinia was a witness who had to be killed or something. as sanderson was drugged by the time she got there, the doorman would have got the box, probably wouldn't have left it in sanderson's room but it doesn't explain where it is in the end

[–] ph75006 9 years ago

The club doorman framed Sanderson for being responsible for his brother's death. I think Sanderson ordered a bunch of raids on the docks and the doorman's brother died as a result of those shootouts. I think the doorman framed him for murder in order to ensure a death sentence once convicted. But instead of just killing Sanderson himself, he wanted to disgrace him and ruin his reputation first, make him suffer. I agree, that episode wasn't all that clear.

In the later episodes, we learn more about the shady stuff that Sanderson and his godson/ new son-in-law Fletcher were involved in. That's probably why he shot the doorman so quickly, to prevent him for revealing any more information that might expose his other involvements.

[–] SrEditor 9 years ago

Did you realize you were resurrecting a thread from 2 years ago?