So, Stella Gibson knows that a hostile journalist is trying to get dirt against her and has already disclosed the name of her hotel in the newspaper. Yet she leaves her private journal - with details of her thoughts and doubts - on the bedside table, where any of the hotel staff could pick it up and sell it to the journalist. She also leaves her laptop lying out, instead of locking it in the room's safe. The latter would be considered gross misconduct by any organisation, and be grounds for dismissal.
It's lazy plotting, where the writer wants to plot to go in a certain direction, then has the characters act illogically to make that happen.
Now, please, will someone stab Paul Spector in the neck so we can all get on with our lives?
It's lazy plotting, where the writer wants to plot to go in a certain direction, then has the characters act illogically to make that happen.
Now, please, will someone stab Paul Spector in the neck so we can all get on with our lives?