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Originally Posted by MahiMike
I dunno. She'll get her money and the girls will like her again.
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Yeah, I'm not sure people appreciate how fine a line they made Jimmy's transgression here. The way they dramatized it provoked strong emotional response, but he was fomenting something that was likely subconscious for many of the group anyway. Or, to his mind, the others were entitled to a moment of disappointment in Irene, but were lulled into complacency because they weren't aware of how her decisions were affecting their standard of living.
For me, the biggest transgression wasn't the whispering in her ear, or the BINGO manipulation, but the lie that the shoes he gave her were shoes she bought with her comfort and wealth.
In a 'better' world, Irene and her friends would have been in open and honest discourse all along about the progress of the class action. And perhaps her friends would have prevailed upon her to settle against counsel's wishes on their collective own long before Jimmy saw the need to meddle.
But as underhanded his methods were, Jimmy saw an unfair situation that is inherent in class action litigation. And certainly his motive for intervening was entirely self-serving. But in the end, his original clients are happy and came to a mutual decision that benefits them all monetarily, and that kind of solution can salve a number of retirement home intramural squabbles and quibbles. The losers in the long run are Davis and Main, 'robbed' of an opportunity for a bigger payday by playing the waiting game with the fortunes of an elderly class of plaintiffs.