Having just watched Jackie Brown, I was left scratching my head about one thing. What did Jackie tell the ATF guy to get him to come to the bail bond office for the meeting with Ordell? Surely she didn’t say he was going to be there picking up his money.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen this, but the ATF guys thought she was picking up 40K (it was really 500K). Jackie arranges for bridgette fonda to pick up the 500k, but only gives her 40k. She then runs out and tells the ATF “Bridgette stole the money!”.
I don’t remember any particular scenes, but I’d imagine the ATF guys and/or Jackie cooked up a scheme where she would tell Ordell she had the money (ordell thinking 500k, atf thinking the missing 40k), then they could grab him when he came in.
I think Zuma is right. She was scamming Ordell and the ATF guy.
I think the ATF guys were under the impression that Jackie was going to give Ordell the $10,000 that Bridgette Fonda had on her body when she died. The ATF guys were satisfied to have just cause to kill Ordell and it solved Jackie’s problem of having Ordell spill the beans about the $400,000+ dollars he was expecting Jackie to give him versus the $10,000 the ATF knew about.