Maybe you can help me out.

[SmoovD]

Hi everyone. This is an awesome show and I will watch season 2 to see where it goes.

My question is, does the show explain how ginny dannigan and later, Dale, are able to get into the gated community? I used to live in one so I know for a fact that you have to be on the guest list or have the gate guard call the house to let you through. Secondly, I would like to know if it was explained how Wayne knew that Doug Rich was a lawyer and went to georgetown before they even had time to do research on him. I mean, he went golfing with the neighbors while their (doug's) stuff was being moved in.

Maybe I missed something somewhere, but I've watched the show twice (Aol TV has the full episodes) because it's really great.

Thanks in advance.

[Dahling]

Hi SmoovD!!

Good questions. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I've seen the first couple of episodes. But didn't Wayne find Doug's law school degree when they moved into the house and started "unpacking"? That would have told him that he's a lawyer and where he went to school.

As to Ginny and Dale getting into the gated community, good point. I've never lived in one, so it probably didn't struck me as strange as it did you. I know Dale posed as a handyman but he still needed an appointment. Maybe he "took over" for a real handyman. I don't believe they ever showed that. As for Ginny, no idea.

I was planning on watching the first season again before season two starts, so I'll pay attention and see if they ever explain it.

Hope to see you around again.

[Steve]

I used to live in an apartment complex with big gates. Not sure if it is comparable, but people got in all the time.
Usually that happens because other people are not careful about who they let in. Someone just has to make up a reasonably believable story.
I guess it depends if the "gated community" includes a guard on duty or if its just a gate with access codes.

[ZinglebertBembledack]

I haven't lived on that side of the USA.

I don't think the writers were concerned about it. In real life, someone camping in a rusty truck in a gated community would be investigated. Dale could get past a guard with the handyman thing. They are con artists, so tricking an uninterested security guard wouldn't be difficult. It's also possible to climb a wall to get into the community, but they did have vehicles.

Not really a plot hole, but it is an unexplained unlikelihood.

[unholyghost2003]

The whole hotly debated "How did Dale and Ginny enter a Gated community thing" is easier to answer when you think about the size of Edenfalls. Nina and Jim are part of the same gated community and have over an acre of land/fields that they raise/graze the alpacas on. Even if Nina and Jim are the exception and not the rule, they are probably not alone in having an acre+ land. That is WAY too much land in the Gated Community to have a giant wall able to keep out any vehicles and not have less heavily guarded access roads. So, while I am sure all of the regular street accesses have gates and guards there are probably PLENTY of smaller, unguarded gates for access.

[Orbert]

That makes sense, but it does kinda defeat the purpose of having a gate and uniformed security, doesn't it? If lowlifes like Dale and Ginny can just find some back road into the neighborhood, what's the point?

[unholyghost2003]

[SmoovD]

Good point Unholyghost2003. I never even thought about that. When I lived in a gated community I never really drove through the entire neighborhood. It was mainly go through the front gate to get home or to my friends houses. When I asked the question in the original post I wasn't thinking in the traveller mindset which would be there is always another way in. It may be fenced off but thats maybe 15 minutes of work to clear a fence enough to get a truck through.

thanks for the reply.