Plot hole in Season 3 finale (spoilers)

Yes, as many posters have already mentioned, S3 finale is a huge letdown and contradicts its earlier set-ups.

While I agree it is a big plot hole, I have to wonder if Lena emailed Calvin because he was a high profile lawyer in Glasgow known to defend McColl. It suppose it was assumed to be a high profile case.

I think it's all in there, but deliberately understated.

Lena enters the witness protection program with her mother. As both Perez and Asha will remark, later on, it's a trying, lonely experience. It follows that, following her mother's suicide - which she blames on the program and Asha - Lena is emotionally damaged, traumatized and disturbed.

Lena ends up working as a chambermaid in the same Aberdeen hotel where Asha will conduct clandestine meetings with Michael. When she recognizes Asha and figures out that Michael is another witness protection client, Lena takes to following him with the intention of using him him to somehow draw Asha away from the relative safety of the big city. Michael leads Lena back to the Shetland archipelago where she grew up.

Lena doesn't know who Robbie is. She never plans to cause Robbie's death or Michael's death. When presented with an opportunity to leave Robbie stranded in a container after his very public falling out with Michael, she shuts him in - hoping that he will be missing long enough to cast suspicion on Michael and draw Asha out. Because of her obssession, she doesn't waste time imagining the consequences if Robbie isn't found in time. And she doesn't lift a finger to help him as time goes on, because she's fixated on messing with Michael.

When things don'thappen fast enough to suit her - despite her constant presence and nagging - she attempts to provoke a faster response by contacting Arthur McCall's organization. She is making an educated guess about that, based on her mother's experiences, because Asha and Michael have been meeting regularly and a likely explanation of that would be McCall's sensational and looming high profile trial. She doesn't have to contact the crime boss. She contacts the office of his equally high profile lawyer who is notorious precisely because of that connection to McCall. Easy enough to find on the internet.


She doesn't appear to have intended that Michael be killed any more than she intended that Robbie be killed. They both are simply collateral.

When Michael follows her to the ruins of a farm (and the assassin follows Michael), he doesn't know she's actually
visiting the site of her childhood home. She's not actually luring him.

The more I'm thinking about this season, the more I'm liking it. Lena's unfocused vendetta sets many different tragedies in motion and exposes multiple conspiracies. And the more I look at it, the more i am struck by the intricate plotting.


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