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Plot Hole? (Possible spoiler)

posted 14 years ago by croak-1
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OK... In Part 1, when Sebastian goes to London and meets up with Maggie at the borrowed apartment, he leaves (because he shouldn't be seen with her, since she's posing as the Countess) and supposedly is going to head to Susie's and Oliver's place to spend the night. But he stops off at a bar (or whatever you want to call it) and sits down at a table with the guy who's reading "I, Robot". Then the two of them head to his place and the guy ends up hanging Sebastian and then shooting him with arrows.

So... how did that guy know that Sebastian would be at that particular bar? And how did he know that Sebastian would hit on him? It just seems that things were pretty much left to chance.

We know at the end of the movie that Tassi is responsible for sending the paintings to Sir Charles, and then has Sebastian in his sights for the next "kill". But how did Tassi know where to find Sebastian in London?

Anyone have any ideas about this possible plot hole?

[–] YarkoTheWarbler 13 years ago

There were several unlikely coincidences in the movie. To me, this was the biggest and silliest -- big enough to call a plot hole.

Like most plot holes, it could have been filled pretty easily -- have the bad guy pursue Seb, instead of the other way around.

If it talks like a duck & walks like a duck in a suicide vest chances are good it's not Buddhist.

[–] annazed10 12 years ago

Yeah, you could pretty much drive a truck through that bit.

[–] bluemagicmist 9 years ago

I was just going to post about the same thing. Huge plot hole, unless an explanation was edited out.
Maybe, a setup guy approached Seb on the street earlier in the night, knew he was looking for some action, told him a young sexy American guy reading 'I, Robot' in said club was available, also part of the setup. Meh... lol