Plot-holes

[WhiteSwan]

(26-01-2011 12:33 PM)binkie Wrote:  

(26-01-2011 12:19 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  Lucas=John said he was trying to earn enough money to return to the UK, how would money help him? Could he buy a fake passport, so why kill Lucas=Lucas? Why didn't he just go to the Embassy say his passport had been stolen and let the embassy staff get him home, that is part of they job after all?

Well, obviously, the reason he couldn't go the embassy is that it wasn't in the script - and that's the worst possible reason for a character in any drama to do, or not do, anything. Too much of the Lucas-is-John storyline relies on this because-it-says-so-in-the-script logic. Were this not the case, we would not need this thread

That's a very good question! It would have been the obvious thing to do!

And why was JB so desperate to get a passport after the explosion? Was he a suspect? But in that case MI6/MI5/the police would have searched for him also in England, which means they probably would have asked his friends and of course Maya if they knew anything about his whereabouts. But quite apparently they didn't (as she didn't seem to know anything about him being in trouble), which means JB can't have been suspected of being involved. And do we know why Vaughn planned to blow up the embassy in the first place? I can't imagine he only did it to give JB the chance to boost his ego - so was he part of any terror organisation? Or did he already work for the Chinese back then? How can it be that on one hand the attack was so well prepared that up to 9.7 no-one had ever been able to find out anything about the people responsible for it - and on the other hand Vaughn hadn't thought of preparing something quite obvious, meaning false passports? Or, in case he already worked for the Chinese - wouldn't it have been very easy for them to obtain something as simple as a false passport? So why was it necessary for JB to kill LN? Other than "because it said so in the script and because we wanted to destroy Lucas' character completely and show that he was rotten to the core and plain evil".
Isn't it amazing how Vaughn was able to cover his tracks so well that he not only wasn't supected of being involved in a terrorist attack, but on top of that he was used by MI5 as an informer (another thing that makes them look very stupid)?