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Suggested correction: A "What if?" scenario that doesn't actually play out can't be considered a plot hole. DeGuerrin is counting on the skills of Kruger and his own team being much higher than a bunch of cut-rate mercenaries, and that is exactly what happens. DeGuerrin enacts a plan that carries a high level of risk, but he and his cohorts have been backed into a corner. If they don't try, they will all go to jail. In addition, when you think about it every police/military raid carries the risk that someone you don't want to die might actually be killed. Risk is part of the job but that doesn't stop people from doing what needs to be done when the time calls for it, and to trust that their skills and training will keep their team safe.

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Suggested correction: They had already intercepted whatever evidence Leigh had because of their inside man at the evidence depot. Donahue was to be made an easy scapegoat since he admitted his guilt on tape and subsequently killed himself. With the scapegoat dead and the evidence lost the case would go away on its own. Killing Leigh at this point only makes the company look more guilty and prove that Donahue was not solely responsible.

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Correction: A plot convenience is not a plot hole. A plot hole is something that cannot be logically explained by the film's story, and the villains having an inside man in the FBI evidence depot certainly does not fall under that definition. It's contrived but certainly not impossible.

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Correction: Kruger would never have given up Leigh's location under threat, and without any leverage over him DeGuerrin has nothing to threaten him with anyway. This is why DeGuerrin goes to great lengths to stage an assault on the cabin by hiring mercenaries to attack his witness, only to double cross them in the end. If everything had gone to plan, they would have made contact with Leigh after the cabin raid and DeGuerrin would have simply found a way to kill her, Kruger, and Monroe. The only problem with this plan is that Kruger doesn't trust DeGuerrin after their conversation on the plane and purposefully gives him the wrong city. The cabin shootout most certainly did serve a purpose, and that purpose was to trick Kruger into unwillingly breaking his own rules.

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