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Splitting the proceeds at Boudreau's?

posted 8 years ago by Fiery_Boycs
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They were all going to meet up and split the proceeds at Boudreau's place (spelling?). The problem with that seems, to me at least, to be that the cop (Snyder) knows all about the con - the (fake) FBI guy told him all about Henry Gondorff and the con he was playing. We also know that Snyder knows about Boudreau's place being the local hangout for grifters; we saw him flatten Kid Erie's nose there earlier in the film.

So he knows that a huge con has just been pulled. He knows where the main grifters like to hang out. I know that he's supposed to think that the FBI were real and that they would be confiscating the money. But he's such a suspicious prick that using Boudreau's is an unnecessary risk.

I bet he'd be staking the place out!

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[–] SidekickinWhiteFury 8 years ago

Snyder is from out of town. And since he believes a murder has just been committed, he is likely to high tail it back to Joliet.

[–] Fiery_Boycs 8 years ago

He knows a con has been pulled and that the mark, Lonergan, is after blood. He knows where the grifters hang out. It would be entirely in character for him to put the squeeze on them or rat them out to Lonergan.

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[–] SidekickinWhiteFury 8 years ago

He is aware that Lonnegan is going to be taken in a con scheme. But he sees things go afoul, and is involved in a murder. His Joilet badge doesn't cut it in Chicago, he is over his head, and he runs back home where it is safe, and he is in more control. He is taken in by the shooting. He is in the "FBI" office when Hooker says he will double cross Gondorff. He is convinced that shooting is real, and he will only get in serious trouble if he hangs around.
"You should have seen the rag he lit under Lonnegan." He's the one who told Lonnegan there's 2 dead guys in there, you can't be involved in that.