Things like (Spoilers Galore From Here) him killing six armed prison guards in a confined space in under two minutes. Him wearing no more of a disguise than a guard’s uniform and being able to walk right out the door of a high security facility. The neighbors, who had seemingly only taken a correspondence course in serial killing, being able to stealth kill to armed police officers and kidnap a woman without making a sound. Them then carrying both her and one of the dead police officers all the way to their garage, again without making a sound. Sitting the dead cop in a chair, writing Nevermore in Blood on the wall and then somehow leaving the garage in their car without any of the 90 or so police officers seeing either the body or the message written in blood on the wall. The killer on death row being allowed to go to the Law Library once a week where he is left alone in a room with a computer. Not to mention the fact that he has seemingly won over almost all of these killer companions by simply chatting with them online. It just doesn’t make sense.

I also don’t really understand the whole concept of someone being scheduled for execution next week and then breaking out and killing a bunch of people which, for some reason, counts as a stay of execution. It would also seem to me that the police and the FBI have no reasonable expectation to get any further information from him. They know he has several killers on the loose and a hostage in his own son but why would they play his game with him?

I’m not going to give up on it after just one episode but if all of the killer’s ‘genius plots’ rely on everyone every being vastly incompetent and terrible at their jobs I won’t be able to make it very far with this show.