The Law 'Shark'
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hmmm... well, I think they planned to do whatever they needed to do to go through with the plan. Also, pinning the crime on Terry could have been a back up plan. It's just that I think it is implied that SOMETHING went wrong with the plan. This is the only part of the plan that I think could have went wrong.
Nope - nothing, from what I see in the case, is implied to 'have gone wrong' at all in the original heist:
The diamond was brought, as planned, Dahlia escapes with the Diamond owing to a probable collaboration with her own sister Valerie, and then Terry was double crossed and arrested. Looks pretty Plain and simple.
There was no evidence whatsoever that anything else took place...essentially, the whole plan was brought about by Dahlia's scheming. She betrayed Valerie, who clearly knew she'd been betrayed through her going to the bridge in the first place - but Terry was always meant to be Dahlia's fallguy, and THAT part played out well.
Before you even suggest again that we don't know how 'evil' she was beforehand, may I remind you that she may just be a disaassociative psychopath from an early age because of all the wretchedness that had taken place in her life. Basically, the story only really seems to direct you more to the fact that she IS evil when we first hear the story, and that you aren't meant to think all that much into it since it collapses under the weight of it's own unelaborated history.
Dahlia's basically a 2-dimensional villain in essence to her background story, with no super-elaborated 'tragic' past other than her parents being selfish jerks that helped bring out her inner demon. Her life was simply started on a selfish path which she willingly walked down, and the result is what we had here.
Nothing else to blame here other than a skirted-round history and vague storyline writing.
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Iris clearly had some part in the plan. I have no idea what it was, but she felt very guilty for betraying Dahlia. Therefore, her part in the plan must have had some importance.
The only reason she would feel guilty here is that she was her sister and felt like she could have performed something to have ceased this plan from ever taking place. She implies she helped plan the whole thing, but in all honesty we don't know to what extend - she only 'helped plan', which means she had SOME input, but not an absolute say in what took place. In reality, Dahlia was playing for herself...this was the plan, and the 'False heist' was simply meant to be her coverup for Terry and Iris to get behind. Iris is a very naive and trusting girl and would probably have done anything her twin told her to do - in fact, I believe it was more likely Iris who helped her sister out from the river - but I feel that she had decided to not partake in the deeds themselves beforehand through the fact she was now also bound to the Hazakura temple as a nun, which probably had it's own particular code of morals.
In short, It's more a lack of depth to the past that gives us a really hazy overview of the reasonings behind these events - Dahlia, as 2-D as she is, was just being what she was brought up to be since she'd never known anything else...evil, cold and cruelly selfish to a point.

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