Fairway bag full of money / more plot recap retread

[Michael Bailey]

Aha - but what about this line?

[March]
“Remember to count what’s in your Fairway bag, there.”

 [Maxine]
         “Why, when I don’t even know how much it’s supposed to be to begin
with, see what I’m saying.”


          I ask you -
      Are those the words of a woman who handed Igor back the bag?



On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> From my first reading I have always believed Maxine did not take the
> money....Now I have gone back and I think that is clear...
>
> "I can't accept this", she clearly says...
>
> "And who'd be hiring me exactly?"
>
> Shrug, smile, nothing more specific.
> "March, what's with this guy? And what are you doing there?"--then to
> Joseph's obs..
>
> Maxine, who turned down a lot more legal money to settle for what she
> thought was OK---$500--would not take that
> money....she loses her whole character as an honest forensic detective
> despite decertification from the Accounting Board.
>
> She doesn't work for no Russian mob and she is not even on a slippery
> slope.
>
> In my reading.
>