What was the point of that? Where did they get all that money and what is the point of ironing them?
shareThey ironed the $1 dollar bills to pass them off as $100 dollar bills in the stack. They put the $100 bill on top of all the $1 dollar bills. Craig and Deran stole the $1 dollar bills from the arcade.
shareTo make them crisp like the new $100 bills?
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Just to make them look new. The were to look like stacks of new bills. The plan is to steal the real money and replace it with $1 bills so it would be a long time before anyone figured out the $100 were stolen
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That's what I'm thinking, but I don't recall it being explicitly said, other than the ship would be at sea a long time before the missing money is noticed. They can't be sloppy enough to leave voids in the pallets of cash, so they'd need to bring in as many bills as they take. Maybe the 1s from the arcade aren't all they're using or else they'd only be stealing about 100 times what an arcade with busted cameras has. Heck, they might get away with paper of the right color, size, and thickness. I wonder how much they intend to steal. If this is to be their biggest score ever and enough for Paul's cut to sway him, Craig to buy a boat, and Baz to get a bigger house it must be in the millions. If there were 100 bills in a stack they'd need a lot of stacks. You can get about 230 in an inch and it looked like they had several feet of stacks which could be a lot of money just in $1 bills and of course 100 times that in $100 bills.
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It looked like they stuffed the SUVs seats with the fake stacks.
shareThat could be because they were props and not actual bills ironed, meticulously arranged, and wrapped. If I had to make fake stacks of cash for a TV show I'd probably wrap reams of paper, preferably thinner than normal and light green, in tape to hold the sheets together as I run them through table and chop saws to achieve about the right dimensions. After that they could be banded authentically, or seemingly authentic, and wrapped in plastic. Any faces that need to be seen would have real cash or very good fake currency.
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Wrong the only way to do it is the right way, and they did it the right way. Using a real bill gives them the right weight and thickness. Substituting a 1 for 100 give them a huge profit and makes it less likely to get caught. If they have been picking up stacks of money for years they will notice when they pick up a stack that is not the right weight. The difference in weight between one dollar bill and one piece of paper is unnoticeable but when you have stacks of bills the difference in weight is cumulative. They don't want anyone to figure out there was a switch for as long as possible. The longer it takes for them to discover it the harder it will be to track do who did it.
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I said if I had to make a prop for show, where the weight doesn't matter, I'd cut reams of paper.
Substituting 1s for 100s means they need to have one percent of what you intend to steal all in 1s. If this would be their largest score ever, more than they've stolen from a bank, and a lot of money for each of them including Paul & probably some for J, then they'd need a lot of seed money.
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You are wrong that weight does not matter. The minute someone that has probably picked up hundreds or thousands of bundles picks up a bundle with fake paper they will notice it instantally
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The weight doesn't matter because they are props and the people handling them are actors who know that they're fake. What I described was how I might go about making props that look real enough for TV, not for actually trying to pass off a currency.
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I misunderstood you, I thought you were talking about what we are supposed to believe is taking place in the story
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My question is....what the hell was the point in doing it?? Did they actually think the guy WASN'T going to notice? Lmao.
He was already back asking questions about it in the same episode. Ironing all that money was just a waste of time. There was no chance they were gonna get away with it.
They're going to put the 1s in place of the 100s so the money isn't noticed as missing until weeks or months later on the ship at sea.
I don't think they gave Vin a stack of 1s, though it'd be interesting if they paid him off with bills they know are marked to get him busted, back in prison, and out of their way.
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I don't think they gave Vin a stack of 1s, though it'd be interesting if they paid him off with bills they know are marked to get him busted, back in prison, and out of their way.
They didn't pay him of with 1s because he'd notice. It'd be like paying for something in a wad of cash that looks like it's enough but isn't, and leaving before the seller counts it but knows who you are and where to find you. He showed up at Smurf's because he doesn't want to be paid off, he wants in on the Codys' jobs.
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No, they paid that guy with the money from under the sink at Baz's dad's house.
shareI thought most of it was counterfeit
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First they launder it, then they have to iron it. Simple.
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