“I’ll give you Ordell,” she whispered, “but I walk. No jail. No witness protection. Just gone.”
Maxine knew she had one shot. For twenty years, she’d moved money for Ordell — never asking where it came from, never skimming more than she could hide. But now the feds had Lewis, and Lewis had a conscience when it suited him. -CM- Jackie.Brown.1997.BluRay.720p.AVC.HYBRID.R...
The agent on the other end laughed. “You think he won’t find you?” “I’ll give you Ordell,” she whispered, “but I walk
Ordell never saw her coming. But then again, that was the point. Would you like a different kind of story — mystery, romance, sci-fi — or one based more exactly on the plot of Jackie Brown ? Just gone
She sat in the food court of the Del Amo mall, a copy of Extra Butter magazine hiding a burner phone. Across the table, an envelope bulged with two hundred grand — Ordell’s cash for a “simple pickup” that night.
Maxine tucked the envelope into her thrift-store handbag. “He won’t look where I’m going. Nobody ever does.”
Instead, she called the ATF.