“Good point”, says Irene. She opens the second box, and goes home with $1,001,000. Why shouldn’t she? Omega’s dead.
Epilogue: The next day, Irene is arrested for attempting to deposit obviously forged notes. One of the notes buried in one of the stacks was just a cartoon of Omega thinking .oO(Sigh).
Fortunately the authorities believe Irene’s story of how she got the fake money. This sort of thing happens all the time, after all. And she did get to keep the real $1000.
Epilogue: The next day, Irene is arrested for attempting to deposit obviously forged notes. One of the notes buried in one of the stacks was just a cartoon of Omega thinking .oO(Sigh).
Fortunately the authorities believe Irene’s story of how she got the fake money. This sort of thing happens all the time, after all. And she did get to keep the real $1000.