That he was involved as well, except he'd thought it was an elaborate setup?

He fails to discover this is an elaborate setup to get them alone and stranded.

He expected to die any second, the victim of an elaborate setup.

Some of the most elaborate setups are made with old trains, which have been passed down for two generations.

Some have elaborate setups, with resident artists, a stage and a library.

But if they're designed for the water, why come out of it at all, particularly to this elaborate setup?

But the movie never really justifies its overly elaborate setup.

It seems that the whole affair was an elaborate setup by the husband, who had prepared the scene and probably even wrote the note.

For all I know, this is some kind of elaborate setup.

Couldn't all of this be some kind of elaborate setup?