9. Why Does Joe Hire Mr. Orange?
Sure he tells a great bathroom story, but that's really not enough to get you into a top-secret organized crime heist is it? At the end of the movie right before Mr. White faces off with Joe and Nice Guy Eddie in a Mexican stand off, Joe comes barreling into the warehouse and starts accusing Mr. Orange, lying in a giant pool of his own blood, of being a rat claiming that Orange was "the only one I wasn't sure about." Tarantino is covering his tracks in a very smart way here. It's a total plot hole that Joe would hire Orange in the first place. Why would a lifelong crime boss bring a guy he hardly knows in on a job that's so secret all the guys are going to have aliases and not know each other? If he is taking that much precaution in the set up of his diamond theft he sure wouldn't leave something as big as another person being in on the take to chance. However, if he hadn't made that mistake the story would be far less interesting. Deftly covering himself, Tarantino names the white elephant in the room by having Joe state that he wasn't sure about Mr. Orange from the very beginning making a well-disguised plot hole look simply like a mistake on Joe's part.