Two Signatures

How he found you: you mailed Dre his chain, and the postmark said Riverton. He took the envelope out of Dre's mailbox. Then the paperwork: every new job in America gets reported to the state within 20 days. Riverton had one new night-shift hire at $17 an hour, the same shift as your old job. You changed your name, not your habits.

How Dre found you: the post office sent him a picture of the letter he never got. Half a stamp, "River…". His followers read the rest, and he took the night bus. Riverton has one bus stop, and one thing open at 4am: your store.

The yellow copy: the night of the heist, you both signed a form saying ten million dollars was shredded. You signed as the worker, he signed as the witness. The white copy went into the vault's files. You kept the yellow one. It has his signature, but no name, which is why you never knew who he was. Dre knew the signature: the fed who questioned him signed his rights form with it. 1,379 of you named him first. The analyst.

The letter: a thief's word against a fed's is nothing, so you wrote down what really happened, Dre wrote down whose signature it is, and you both signed. It buries him. It buries you too, so nobody uses it unless they have to. Dre texted a photo to Miss Pearl, his neighbor back home. Every morning he texts her one word. If he's arrested, the word never comes, and she takes it to the newspaper.

The standoff: he had already changed the vault copy and the night log to say Walt. His offer: half of what's left, Walt takes the fall, and the letter stays with Miss Pearl so everyone keeps quiet. DEAL: he gets $2.75M, some of bag two turns up in Walt's garage, and you go free. EXPOSE: he loses his badge, but the letter is your confession too, so you and Dre run with all $5.5M. A patrol car pulled in. Your call.