Picking Nits
Unfrisked at the murder scene; New York Post profile; fast Van Loon hire; Van Loon recognized in restaurants; unpaid loan shark; loan math; helpful running bad guy; three dead men before his campaign
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- The biggest nit is that the police don't frisk Eddie at the murder scene despite his cash and off-market chemicals, and calling the police beside a dead body would bring follow-up questions.
- The New York Post profiles him after only about four days of trading success.
- Carl Van Loon hires him after one meeting, and restaurant patrons announce who Van Loon is and his fortune.
- If Eddie were so smart, he would have paid off the Russian loan shark on time; he makes mistake after mistake.
- The loan math fails: starting from $800 and quintupling it five times in a row is already like $500,000, so why borrow $100,000; he is using maybe 78% of his brain.
- The running bad guy freely takes Eddie to his dead boss's place out of spite toward the lawyer, after also working for Atwood as driver and assassin.
- Three dead men in Eddie's apartment are tied to an arms dealer who used to live there, yet a year later he runs for office with no scrutiny despite being a person of interest in another murder.