What's the Difference between Fool Me Once the Book and Fool Me Once the TV Show?
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Maya Stern
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Maya Stern
Portrayed by: Michelle Keegan
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Detective Roger Kierce
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DS Sami Kierce
Portrayed by: Adeel Akhtar
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Joe Burkett
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Joe Burkett
Portrayed by: Richard Armitage
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Fool Me Once Book vs TV Show
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In the TV Show |
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Maya is unable to put a tracker on a red car she has spotted following her in the past. She eventually follows the car and finds Corey Rudzinski is the driver. He brings her back to the strip club to talk to her about his activities. Corey says Claire was giving him information on Burkett industries medical fraud in exchange for not releasing the audio on Maya’s actions that caused the death of civilians during combat. |
Maya is able to put a tracker on the red car that was following her. While in the helicopter with a student, Maya tracks the car on her phone and lands near where its parked in the forest. She searches on foot, then is assaulted and detained by two men who bring her to talk to Corey Rudzinski. Corey says Claire was giving him information on Burkett industries medical fraud in exchange for not releasing the audio on Maya’s actions that caused the death of civilians during combat. |
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While Maya, Claire and a friend were traveling in Europe, they meet some men and had some flings, but did not have sex with the men. Nothing about Claire having a baby with Alexander Dosman. |
While Maya, Claire and Eva were traveling in Europe, they meet some men. Twenty years later, Claire’s children Dan and Abby find an old film camera. Developed photos show their mom pregnant with a child that could not be one of them. They also see a man in the photos, they learn his name is Alexander Dosman. Abby visits him at his home where he tells about meeting her mother, but he did not know she was pregnant.
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This is not in the book. |
The police question Phil Dawson about a bike he owns that was involved in the murder of Joe Burkett. |
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Maya confronts Ona Douglass, the wife of Tom Douglass about the $10,000 a month payments from the Burketts for many years. She gets no information from her other than that Tom is away and she does not know where he is. Tom was the Coast Guard officer in charge of the investigation into Andrew Burkett’s death. |
Tommy Dark’s wife Ona calls Maya and says she needs to talk to her. Tommy had been receiving 9000 pounds a month for the last 20 years from the Burkett family since the death of Andrew Burkett when he fell off of the yacht. Tommy was the captain of the family’s yacht and has been missing for six weeks. Maya argues with Judith about these events.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Dan finds a document related to a DNA test that he had as a child. They go to the website; it shows a connection to a half sibling. Maya tells Dan and Abby that they have a half brother that is about 19 now. |