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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Shane drives Maya and Izzabella to Judith Burkett’s house. Maya enters the house while Shane guards Izzabella and her brother. |
Shane drives Izabella and her brother out of the city and abandons them on the road so they will not be able to bother them for a while. |
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When Judith, Niel and Caroline return home, Maya admits to killing Joe. Judith admits that Joe murdered Claire because she “tried to destroy us” by exposing their medical fraud. Neil admits to sending men to kidnap Maya after she left Swain. Maya tells Judith that Joe killed Theo Mora, Tom Douglass and his brother Andrew. Judith is shocked at the revelation that Joe killed Andrew. Neil shoots Maya three times. |
Maya sneaks into Judith Burkett’s house to confront her along with Niel and Caroline. Judith admits that Claire had evidence of Burkett medical fraud and Joe’s murder of Andrew. Judith knows that Joe was evil. Judith suggests that everything (faulty drugs) is blamed on Joe. Niel shoots and kills Maya.
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Judith, Neil and Caroline follow Maya’s dying gaze towards the fireplace and see the nanny cam she placed there. The shooting was live streamed to the internet. Maya dies. |
Kierce and Coey watch in horror as the nanny cam streams Maya’s murder on the internet. It was watched by thousands of people. |
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25 years later Shane thinks back to Maya actions on the day of her death. She went to the Burkett house unarmed so they would not be able to claim self defense if they tried to kill her. Maya claimed she never felt guilty about the civilian deaths in Iraq and she would do it again to protect her fellow soldiers. |
Corey tells Kierce that Maya was atoning for her war crimes by setting herself up to be murdered by the Burketts.
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25 years later Shane meets Eileen at the hospital. He thinks about the Burkett murder going live over the internet and how later on Corey was able to help bring down corrupt governments and businesses later in his career as a whistle blower. Eddie has remarried, his kids Dan and Alexa are successfully employed. Lily has given birth to a baby she names Maya. |
18 years later Kierce is shown going into a hospital. He and Eddie meet an adult Lily who has just given birth to a daughter she will name Maya. |