So, don't give any water to dying henchmen when you find a suitcase full of money
Is the message?
shareIt wouldn't have mattered, the transponder was still in the satchel.
Lewellen might have lingered for a few days before he skipped town, the stachel hidden under the trailer.
A fair chance that the Mexicans or Anton would have found it.
I agree. Even when he knew he was outed after returning to the standoff site he left the money in the satchel all the way until he was at the border town hotel. Even when he fled the small motel after realizing the cartel was on his heels he didn't think to check the satchel so it stands to reason that if he never returned to the standoff scene he'd probably sit on it at home for a couple of days, still leaving him open for discovery.
shareNo, totally wrong conclusion.
He got the money in his trailer.
Nobody saw anything. He feels safe.
The bad guys arrive and find the massacre. Everybody is dead.
Where is the money?
Somebody else must have taken it.
They had NO WAY to identify Lewellen or his whereabouts.
They recovered the drugs.
They had every reason to skip town and not get involved by sticking their nose in such a noticeable event (the shootout).
But even if they did, how long would it take them to look for it around his trailer park? That tracker worked at some 100/200 meters, not that effective to find such an isolated place.
And how long would Lewellen hold on to the bag before taking the money to a bank safe deposit?
So, let's say they had a couple of weeks max to stumble 200 meters away from his trailer.
Had Lewellen left the thirsty guy alone, he would be a rich and happy man.
The fact that it's isolated might have helped them find him, actually.
They'd probably drive around every town, trailer park, apartment complex and so on in the area first. In a rural area like that there wouldn't be all that many of them. If Llewelyn lived in a cabin on some side road somewhere I'd agree with you, but I think there's a pretty decent change Llewelyn ends up dead if he doesn't try to bring the water to the man in the truck. Llewelyn didn't find the transponder and seemed to think he'd gotten away cleanly.
If he lived two hours or so away from where he was hunting his chances would have been better because it's a larger search area, but I didn't get that impression. Even then, there's going to be a lot of people looking for him.