But then Motherwell's Keith Lasley gave away his third penalty of the two-legged tie and Olafur Finsen levelled in the 37th minute.
Hibernian will play the winner of that quarter-final to enter the two-legged Premiership play-off final against the team finishing 11th in the Premiership for a place in the top tier next season.
This year the scene stealers, both the two-legged and four-legged kinds, have kept things interesting.
And not all are of the two-legged kind, either.
Annan will face Albion Rovers in the two-legged final.
The team finishing 11th this term will enter a two-legged tie with one of the top sides from the Championship.
A win there would set up a two-legged tie against the team finishing 11th in the Premiership.
This season, the team that finishes 11th in the newly-branded Scottish Premiership will enter a two-legged promotion/relegation play-off with one of the top sides in the second tier, who will have already played a two-legged semi-final with one of their fellow Championship clubs.
The police suspected a four-legged intruder rather than a two-legged one.
So how do we fathom the unfathomable?
