The ITV show’s fifth episode saw 18-year-old Dessie (Desmond) Toner (played by Connor McCarry) reveal his true nature when he sinisterly produced a rifle in his room and acted out what he would presumably do to his victims.
But the story took a bizarre turn when the students embarked on a geography trip with shady teacher Craig Petrie (Alastair Mackenzie).
One student who regularly bullied the teen, Crawford Baxter (Euan Stamper) commented on the obviousness of the peculiar shaped-bag, but Dessie fielded the questions before Mr Petrie stepped in and asked the bully to leave him alone.
Dessie told his tormentor he would be sorry, before eventually murdering him and shooting Kieran Whitehead (Jack Bannon).
The detectives found Dessie also shot and lying dead next to Kieran in a particularly shocking moment for the series.
Viewers immediately took to Twitter to question the strange blunder.
One person posted: “Is no one going to ask him what that big package is he’s carrying then? It’s hardly a snooker cue type trip #TheLoch”, while another agreed: “And no one questions the boy taking a gun bag on the school trip #TheLoch.”
“School trips eh… I was forever taking my weapon of choice on them, no one ever batted an eyelid…. What a load of sh**! #TheLoch,” one person raged.
Meanwhile, some viewers criticised the direction of the murder drama as one person posted: “#TheLoch sillier and sillier by the minute.”
One fan even thought he had the real killer of the man floating in Loch Ness clocked, when he said: “If PC Jason in #TheLoch isn’t killer, I’ll eat my hat. I’ve said it from Ep 2 and nothing has changed. #randomcloseups #nobodyisthisstupid”
The penultimate offering of the Scottish series was packed with twists and turns as Detective Annie Redford (Laura Fraser) discovered the murder weapons that killed Jonjo Patterson and Niall Swift hidden in Dessie’s attic, setting in motion a nail-biting sequence of events.
Annie’s husband Alan (Gray O’Brien), who was recently stabbed in the last episode and was surrounded by another continuity mishap, then took a pair of tourists across the Loch where they finally discovered the infamous dead body, ending on a cliffhanger.
The Loch’s finale concludes next Sunday at 9pm on ITV.
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