The Cheaters is normally a great show with intriguing and well-acted dramas - as indeed is this. The problem is that the plot falls apart at the end, and makes no sense. Warning - if you read on, there are major spoilers ahead.
This looks like it is going to be a drama about murderous twins, where the bad twin Jane kills the good twin Laura and takes her place to enjoy marriage with a rich aristocrat. All fine - yet this is not the resolution of the mystery.
It turns out that the birth certificates of Laura and her twin were issued 3 weeks apart. But it is never explained what this means. It presumably means there is no twin, and Laura and Jane are the same person (though this is not stated). Where the second birth certificate came from isn't clear, or why Laura would order it at 3 weeks old. If the second certificate were somehow faked, why did she put the wrong date on it? Anyway, Jane either doesn't exist, or is otherwise explained away.
So now we have a single individual, Laura, who wants to settle down with a rich aristocrat while also sowing her wild oats on the sly, and to do this, she sets up two establishments. But then in each of them, she poses as twins. Why do this? Why not set up the second apartment under a false name (since she can forge birth certificates, it shouldn't be impossible), in which case no-one would have reason to associate the two, the 'good girl' and the 'good time girl'?
Anyway, she sets up a fake twin, to have a good time in the bright lights. But then, when marriage is imminent and she needs to get rid of Jane, why doesn't she just pretend that Jane has gone back to Canada? What she actually does is murders one of her photographic models, which is a bit drastic, and dumps the body in the river. She needs to be sure to identify the body, so she needs to be sure that it spends a long time in the water. She also needs to be sure that the dead girl's mother isn't also asked to identify the body first, as it's her daughter that is missing. Anyway, she gets away with it.
But then, why make an insurance claim on double indemnity? Granted, £50,000 is no bad thing, but she is about to marry a rich man, so she doesn't need the money, and it simply draws more attention to the case.
It looks like they were so concerned to put in a twist, that they forgot to check whether the twist made sense.
This looks like it is going to be a drama about murderous twins, where the bad twin Jane kills the good twin Laura and takes her place to enjoy marriage with a rich aristocrat. All fine - yet this is not the resolution of the mystery.
It turns out that the birth certificates of Laura and her twin were issued 3 weeks apart. But it is never explained what this means. It presumably means there is no twin, and Laura and Jane are the same person (though this is not stated). Where the second birth certificate came from isn't clear, or why Laura would order it at 3 weeks old. If the second certificate were somehow faked, why did she put the wrong date on it? Anyway, Jane either doesn't exist, or is otherwise explained away.
So now we have a single individual, Laura, who wants to settle down with a rich aristocrat while also sowing her wild oats on the sly, and to do this, she sets up two establishments. But then in each of them, she poses as twins. Why do this? Why not set up the second apartment under a false name (since she can forge birth certificates, it shouldn't be impossible), in which case no-one would have reason to associate the two, the 'good girl' and the 'good time girl'?
Anyway, she sets up a fake twin, to have a good time in the bright lights. But then, when marriage is imminent and she needs to get rid of Jane, why doesn't she just pretend that Jane has gone back to Canada? What she actually does is murders one of her photographic models, which is a bit drastic, and dumps the body in the river. She needs to be sure to identify the body, so she needs to be sure that it spends a long time in the water. She also needs to be sure that the dead girl's mother isn't also asked to identify the body first, as it's her daughter that is missing. Anyway, she gets away with it.
But then, why make an insurance claim on double indemnity? Granted, £50,000 is no bad thing, but she is about to marry a rich man, so she doesn't need the money, and it simply draws more attention to the case.
It looks like they were so concerned to put in a twist, that they forgot to check whether the twist made sense.