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Since Burnham knew the Panic Room phone wasn't hooked up


Wouldn't an easier plan have been for him to call Meg and say "hello this is courtesy call from the Panic Room company, we can see that your Panic Room phone isn't hooked up would you like someone to come out and hook it up for you?" Then when she says yes, he and Junior go (he's disguised as a Panic Room guy) and Burnham hooks up the phone and while he's there he opens the safe and takes the money. All he'd have to say is he may have to drill a hole to connect some wires (that was the case when I had my cable installed), Meg probably wouldn't even know any better.

If that's feasible it sounds a lot easier than breaking into the house.

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Interesting point. However, they went in thinking that no one was there and when they wanted to head out, they were already on the surveillance footage. Burnham brings up being on videotape the second they walked in.

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True, his paranoia about the tapes ended that plan. He and Junior should have been scoping the place out the entire day to make sure you know a family wasn't moving in, but then again Junior is a complete "f-ck up" and I guess Burnham just trusted him (foolishly) to have all the details correct.

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