Picking Nits
Mikey's bearer-bond theft and flight to Detroit; what a bearer bond is; Jenny and Axel not upset enough about Mikey; machine guns in the strip club; Axel's car making the Detroit-to-LA drive; how Jenny affords her clothes and car
In the discussion (4)
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- Mikey was a warehouse security guard who stole a bunch of German bearer bonds, threw them in his jacket, ran back to Detroit and thought nobody would notice, a tough plan; one host does not watch movies for logic but knows a movie is bad when asking why something is happening; it is also weird that he shows Axel the stolen bonds 30 seconds into seeing him again after prison.
- Bearer bonds, transcribed as bear bonds, are still not understood since the Die Hard episode and sound like something from Provincetown in July; Jenny should have been more upset that Mikey was dead, and Axel too, though both seem to have expected he would end up that way.
- In 1984 it was really fluid; the robbers were not subtle, walking into the strip club in long leather dusters with machine guns under their coats and just standing there, so Axel gets too much credit for spotting them, and their plan, robbing everyone or just the register, is unclear. — Chris Ryan
- Axel's car could not have made the drive from Detroit to Los Angeles, and he drives it back even though they paid for his hotel; how much Jenny Summers made running the art gallery is questioned given her nice clothes and car, with the suspicion that she was a drug dealer and the expectation that she would make a heel turn.