Add up
Add up verb - Add up in number or quantity.
Plot
Plot verb - To engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends.
Both terms in one sentence
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Poor Communication Kills: Really with aliens, etc you would think Julia's affair would be the least concern - but it drives the plot and the lies add up.
Source: Film / Extraterrestre - Throughout Sherlock Holmes, our Sherlock and Watson work to stop the evil plot of Lord Henry Blackwood, except that Holmes realizes that a few details just don't add up.
- The BSG writers didn't just apply Magic A Is Magic A to their work in the end; they fell back onto "divine intervention" to explain plot twists which, if you analyzed them objectively, didn't add up.
Source: The Chris Carter Effect
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