Bold and the Beautiful clumsily puts together why and how Luna killed Tom and Hollis

Tuesday, Aug. 27's episode of The Bold and the Beautiful laid out the reason for Luna Nozawa's murder streak at Il Giardino and how she went about killing Tom and Hollis. The issue, of course, was that it's a little pieced together.

Luna's motive is clear. Tom believed he was her father and, as she told Steffy, she'd been aware of the letters he'd been sending Poppy for years. She read them, but it wasn't a problem because she never thought he'd pop up anywhere. So her plan to hook Bill as her father was fool-proof. When she'd learned that her mom and the billionaire spent one memorable night together, she kept pressing about whether he could be her dad.

Poppy insisting that he wasn't didn't deter Luna especially once her mom and Bill seriously began dating. She knew that if she kept pushing about it, Poppy would want it to be true. All she had to do was bide her time. Once Poppy was open to getting a paternity test done, Luna bought one off the dark web and was ready to trick Bill and her mother into thinking she's his daughter.

Her plan was almost ruined by her aunt Li but Luna lucked out with the tests. They were the same kind so all she had to do was switch out the results when no one was looking. She did just that and voila, she was suddenly a Spencer. But then Tom showed up like a thorn in her side, and Luna decided that she needed to take action.

She admitted to drugging him. There was no way she was going to let that "loser," as she put it, keep her from having the life she feels she deserves. As for Hollis, he was collateral damage. Luna found him with Tom's bag. Once she learned her "friend" read his letters, she quickly got rid of him, too. She did so by telling Hollis that Deacon was looking for him which bought her just enough time to put the same drug in his drink that she'd used to kill Tom.

Hollis died a horrible death as he came to realize it was Luna who'd attacked him. She left him behind the bar, struggling to breathe, alone and aware he was dying. Luna showed no remorse for her actions, and she's not going to because the soap has gone full-tilt villain with her character which would be totally fine if there weren't holes in the storyline.

The story is still unfolding so there's time for The Bold and the Beautiful to reveal a split personality twist to this plot but for now we're working on Luna's sweet innocence being an act which calls into question everything that's happened with her on the soap including her love for RJ and her mother. Not to mention this reveal doesn't quite work.

While we can just accept that Luna snuck out of the estate to go kill Tom when she was supposed to be hanging out with Bill, her looking through Tom's bag with no one else as a witness and then being shocked by the letters makes no sense if she's been the killer this whole time. Was she just putting on a show for herself? Poppy wasn't in the room until after Luna went through the bag and called her mom into the living room. Said bag was also hidden behind the couch and was a surprise to Luna.

Plus, there's the callousness. Shouldn't that have shown up even a little bit? We've spent nearly a year with Luna. She has had multiple scenes raking herself across the coals in moments where she wants to be honest but has chosen not to and sometimes those scenes have happened with no one around. Yes, this is a soap and character twists happen all the time but we need a road built to get there. For Luna all we've gotten is a flipped switch and a complete 180 on her attitude which doesn't line-up with what we'd seen of her before this twist. Hopefully, there's more to what's going on so it makes a bit more sense.

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