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> These are scene jumps that serve the plot

It's unclear what you mean by this; you can make a scene jump without leaving obvious questions unresolved. If you _never_ resolve them, readers are going to see them as flaws.

As you say, hiding things based on POV can absolutely work:

- _Charlie_ has no idea how Bob found his home. From his perspective, shock and confusion are the appropriate response. 

- _Mary's captor's_ don't notice that she has somehow escaped her bonds, until she is long gone. Or perhaps _Mary's partner, Sally_ gets an abbreviated story (or just a casual joke) from Mary about how she got away.

If Mary is your POV, though, it is going to seem really strange not to at least _hint_ at something (that Mary was once a magician's assistant, that she wore a metal bracelet with an edge sharp enough to cut through rope, that she was able to befriend the sharp-toothed guard dog, etc.).

You can also leave the reader satisfied by resolving these later, like in a mystery. Maybe we discover Bob's background as a hacker, or his friendship with the chatboard owner, or his association with law enforcement.

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