Plot-holes

[NightOwl]

(22-01-2011 03:59 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  

(22-01-2011 03:37 PM)penfold Wrote:  

(21-01-2011 06:20 PM)NightOwl Wrote:  Why didn't Home Secretary Ash have servants or security guards, or at least security cameras, around that big house?

If you mean Home Secretary Blake [!] he was no longer Home Secretary, nor was he even an MP after being discovered as a leading light of Nightingale *, so the protection would have been withdrawn.

[* That's another plot hole in my book - totally out of left field and completely unbelievable.]

I wondered about the absence of security cameras too!

I assumed there was security cameras which is why Harry did not drive a car up to the front of the house even though it was raining. So his number plate would not be filmed and he had his umbrella up, to hide his face. There would not have been camera's inside the house, but probably at the front gate and to the front and back of the house.

As to why there was nobody else in the house, surely that is because Harry went there to kill him and probably waited to get Blake on his own. Harry was hardly going to turn up by chance with a bottle of poisoned whiskey when there were cooks, and servants running all over the place. Give Harry some credit.

I can't see there are any plot holes there at all.

I wasn't referring specifically government security just that given that Blake (Thank you, I had a bout of name confusion.) appears to be wealthy I'd assume that he would have some type of security to protect his family and belongings.

As for the servants, certainly Harry wouldn't want anyone around, but is it likely that no servants would be around at all, and how could Harry know it? And if Harry was using his umbrella to shield his face from cameras how could he have known when he made his plan that it would be raining on the day neither family nor staff would be there?