The Most Brilliant Thing in The Reacher Series's Plot
After watching the three seasons of the Reacher Series, I made this post talking about how one of the episodes was the dumbest in series history. LOL. I know, a bit harsh, but if you read the post you'll see why.
After making that post I planned to make another talking about this really brilliant thing that was in the series too, but I've been putting it off. That comes to an end today 😀.
By far the most impressive thing about the series, if you ask me, was the crime that was uncovered in the Season 1. I know the stories were already written into books by the British Author Lee Child, but it is still part of the series the same way some of the flaws I talked about is.
The crime that was being done in that Season 1 was so brilliant and I wonder if it was something that happened in real life or if the author came up with that on his own.
Here's the crime: these guys were going to print USD for themselves, they had the tools but didn't have the paper to print it, instead of going through the hell it would take to get the papers they decided instead to take $1 notes, wash off the ink on them and make them blank papers again, and then use them to create $100 notes.
I had a mindgasm once this crime became clear. Especially as it wasn't just revealed at once the way I've described it here. It was uncovered slowly, we knew these guys were printing money illegally, but it was a huge wonder how they got the paper to print. It seemed like a huge scheme was going to be revealed where they got the paper from a corrupt person in the government or something like that.
But it turned out they simply made it from $1 notes. I started wishing I was the one who thought about this stuff, I would have made a crazy story with it. LOL. (I already have a crazy story of my own, though, in my book Professor Otagburuagu)😉.
But Lee Child did a great job with the idea, though.
When a mystery, especially a crime, is investigated in a story it is always so pleasantly mind-blowing when what is uncovered turns out to be a very brilliant scheme. At that point even if you're a good citizen who wants the best for society you just find yourself admiring the criminals and feeling like they deserve the success they were getting and like it would have been an injustice if they didn't get anything for being this brilliant. LOL.
I watched an interview of Frank Abagnale, the real life con man who was the subject of the movie Catch Me if You Can (2002). In that interview he talked about all the brilliant scams he did and the audience of the show applauded every single brilliant one of them and laughed heartily at how humorously he described his crimes.
Everybody appreciates a brilliant idea, even if it is menacing. LOL
The End
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