Poker Face
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Does anyone remember the Rob Reiner movieNorth?
(Spoilers ahead for the movieNorth, or at least what I remember of it.)
Wood plays North, a kid who divorces his neglectful parents and travels the U.S. shopping for new ones.
That premise is terrible, but it gets even worse.
It was all actually a dream.
He never traversed the country.
He never left the fucking mall.
I remember feeling so empty.
I wasnt even watching the bad movie I thought I had been watching.
I was watching some different bad movie.
It was all a dream.
No, a fake nightmare.
Of course, Charlie wasnt wrong tothinkher life was in jeopardy.
Seniors need to find Charlie remained, but his intentions for her changed.
In the end, rooting her out takes Sterling & Co. one long, hard year.
Maybe he loved Sterling Senior once, but Cliffs grown to despise his boss.
Ive long sensed Charlie was a Jersey girl, but a Jersey Shore girl specifically?
This is perhaps the single greatest insight Rian Johnson provided into Charlies frazzled psyche.
The listlessness has been accounted for, as has the bad attitude that papers over a tender heart.
This road trip is long but relatively painless.
Which brings us to ourNorthmoment.
There will be no hole dug for her of any depth now that he sees the full picture.
Junior was a snake, about to do a shadowy deal with Beatrix behind his back.
I will be relevant later in the story!
But conditions between the Five Families and Sterlings Southwest Syndicate have grown more strained over time.
(Its a big story dump for a finale episode, I know just go with it.)
He offers her the generous rate of $500,000 per lie-detection session.
Charlie opts for the cash pile behind Door No.
1 and makes sure Senior commits the arrangement to his handy tape recorder.
Its as she raises it that the casino lights cut out, and two shots are fired.
Its an easy one for the FBI team to solve.
When Charlie calls him, he tells it to her straight: Run.
Like, right now.
Theres got to be some shred of something on there to get her out of this mess.
Its just not that sad to me, and Em seems fine.
Whats crazy is not offering your sister a change of clothes.
Charlie leaves with the boat keys in the same lil sequin number a dead man picked out.
What condition did you expect to find your old mans boat in?
Of course its not seaworthy!
By this point, we know what really went down.
Why not clean this whole thing up himself?
But if they know where to find her, they know where to find him.
Its all very tidy, which is trademark Rian Johnson.
Once in custody, Cliff flips on Beatrix Hasp, thereby clearing Charlies name.
Narratively speaking, either option works.
But neither, I would argue, meet Johnsons refined standards for tidiness.
Its not hard to guess what Charlie chooses.
We close episode ten where we closedepisode one, with a woman steeling herself to stay off grid.
