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Major plot holes + unanswered questions (**SPOILERS**)


Maybe it's the full moon, but I found so many errors and things that just didn't make sense.

When the school principal called to check on Davey's absences, he should have asked to speak to the mother, not just started talking to whoever answered.

Apartment door left unlocked after police finished so Megan could walk right in. Wouldn't they have secured the premises?

Davey ended up at the foster mom's house with no extra clothes. Wouldn't the social worker have gone to the apartment and packed some clothes for him?

What happened to all their belongings at the apartment?

Was Davey's father dead or had he just walked out years earlier? The social worker made no effort to trace him.

Megan was an incredibly selfish person. She gave no thought to what the consequences of letting Davey stay could mean for Tom. He told her he would lose his job, but she just said "Do it for me." Yeah, so after she's gone Tom could possibly go to jail for harboring a runaway boy. Megan also didn't think of how emotionally needy and starved for love Davey was and how difficult it would be for him when she died.

The social worker showed how ignorant of children she was when she placed Davey with that Nazi foster mother. True, it was an emergency placement but she actually thought Davey would benefit from structure and discipline. Maybe later, but certainly not the day his mother died!

Risking her job to leave Davey with the Starks was stupid. Didn't she know it would eventually come out and she would be in major trouble?

Tom would never be allowed to adopt Davey and I think they both knew it at the end. Unless he quit the railroad, Tom would be gone a lot, with no one to look after the boy.



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