BEg2 chapter 5 structure (1a - with detour back to ch2)

[Michael Bailey]

53 - 54 Maxine’s looking at hashslingrz numbers

- where does she get that raw data from?

- they gave Reg “total access” to create a rah-rah paean to the company

- probably didn’t expect him to peer into financials with the focus,
similar to how he “subverted the diegesis” when bootlegging

- OR, this history is *precisely why* they chose him.

Gabriel Ice may or may not be complete villain, may be playing factions off
against each other in a deadly serious game of Spy Vs Spy vs Repressive
Elements in US Govt vs Russian State vs Russian mob vs Arabic Bloc et al,
and may be looking for help like what they used to call “reaching out to”
Reg, without explicitly saying so (like how Bigfoot Bjornsen “reaches out”
to Doc Sportello)

- or Gabriel Ice’s spouse & hashslingrz comptroller Tallis (name is Welsh
for “shining brow”) may be the one who’s aware of Maxine via her mother
March Kelleher (“the sisterhood”)

- (“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…The Secretary will disavow
any knowledge….”)

- AND they even may be “reaching out” to Maxine specifically: if they are
aware of Reg as “filmmaker with non-standard options”, then they may be
aware he knows Maxine, and may be aware of *her* non-standard features -

“The big selling point about a Certified Fraud Examiner gone rogue, she
guessed, is a halo of faded morality, a reliable readiness to step outside
the law and share the trade secrets of auditors and tax men.”


- there would have to be some public data because hashslingrz is publicly
traded (I think?????)

- But Reg “has a guy” (Eric Outfield) so, although we’re not shown him
actually passing a folder, a floppy, a CD or DVD to Maxine (or he could by
then attach it to an email, etcetera) …

- But if they are aware of Reg & Maxine they might know of Eric, so these
numbers could be artifactual

But you go into an investigation with the data you have, not the data you’d
like to have!