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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Maya finds Izabella and her brother then ambushes them in their truck. She pistol whips them both. Izabella claims her mother told them that Maya killed Joe, so they faked the video of Joe on the nanny cam SD card. They did it so Maya would question her sanity. |
Maya plants a tracking device on Izabella’s brother’s vehicle. When she finds them later on, Maya holds Luka and Izzabella at gunpoint; she threatens Izabella and pistol whips her brother until they admit to faking the nanny cam footage of Joe. They superimposed Joe’s face over Luka’s body. Judith thought Maya was lying about Joe’s death. |
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Shane shows up while Maya is threatening Izabella and her brother. He knows that the same gun was used to kill Claire and Joe because Maya had given him a spent bullet from her revolver and asked him to get it compared to the bullet found in her sister’s body. |
A flashback shows Maya giving Shane a fired bullet from her hidden Glock 17 to compare to the bullet found in Claire’s body. After she finds out her gun was used to kill Claire, she determines that Joe had killed Claire.
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Maya lured Joe to the park. She had switched around her two 38 caliber revolvers stored in the gun safe so that she had the one Joe used on Claire and Joe had the other one with the firing pin removed. After Maya told Joe that she knew he killed Claire, Joe tried to shoot her, but his gun would not fire. Maya then murdered Joe. Maya dumped the murder weapon in the river and reassembled the other registered revolver and put it back in the safe. |
Maya switched her deactivated Glock 17 with her illegal and functioning Glock 17. Joe takes the deactivated pistol to meet Maya in the park. After Maya confronts/accuses Joe in the park, Joe tries to shoot her, but his gun doesn’t work. Maya murders him then. |
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This is not in the book. |
Kierce questions Rambo who tells him that he saw Maya murder Joe. Kierce has her car tracked to Lily’s daycare, Kierce goes there to find that Eddie has picked up Lily and that Maya is at home.
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This is not in the book. |
It is revealed that Joe disposed of Tommy Dark’s body and got blood in Maya’s car while doing so. |