What's the Difference between Fool Me Once the Book and Fool Me Once the TV Show?
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In the TV Show |
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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This does not happen in the book. |
Eddie Walker goes to Alexander Dosman’s house and beats him up. Later he returns and they talk. Dosman says he didn’t know his child existed until a week ago. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
The police find out that Eddie lied about his whereabouts when his wife was murdered. Kierce and McGreggor question him about it; he says he drove a woman named Sasha home that night and ended up in a pub.
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This does not happen in the book. |
A young man (Louis) gets an e-mail alert that says Claire Walker check his DNA profile. He later meets Abby at the sports center and says he was hanging out with her mom to try to get to know her. Claire was killed soon after he saw her for the last time while touring a private school. |
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Corey and Maya go to Tom Douglass’ storage unit and open it. It stinks from his rotting corpse. She sends Corey away and calls 911. She tells the police she was acting on a tip and saw an arm sticking out of the door. |
Corey and Maya go to Tommy’s rented storage unit. They find Tommy Dark’s corpse in a freezer in the storage unit. The police are called, they find Maya there, but not Corey. Maya asks Kierce about the 9000 pounds he gets each months, he denies that he is getting anything.
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When Maya is questioned by the police about Tom Douglass’s death, she does not admit that Corey was with her. |
Kierce brings Maya into the police station to question her about blood in her car that could match Tommy Dark’s blood. When they ask about the man in her car on the way to Dark’s storage unit, she tells him Corey was with her. She tells them about her investigation into the Burketts and suggests that Corey planted Dark’s blood in her car. |