Episode 2: Bring the Money

February 28, 2023·38 min·3 clips

Forced at gunpoint to call his partner, Alan Plowden could say only two words — 'Bring the money' — hoping his partner would understand something was wrong.

The warning comes first. Brandon Jenkins tells listeners the story includes graphic violence, then steps back to Max B's rap future and the question still hanging over his case. The facts feel foggy at first. People keep circling the hotel room, the bag, and the gun, while Jenkins keeps asking what actually happened that night. Then Gina takes over. In the interview, a detective pushes her to say what Charlie wanted her to do. The wording lands hard. Gina says Charlie told her that if she did this, he would love her forever, and Jenkins repeats it so it cannot slide past. The detective keeps tightening the frame. Gina says she was supposed to go with Sims and pull Jay off if the money was there. Jenkins spells out what that means: Jay is Plowden, and the detective wants Gina to confirm Charlie told her to go with Sims to rob him. She says yes. Until then, it has sounded almost casual, just talk at a basketball court. After that, it is a plan. Gina and Sims are supposed to get to the Holiday Inn while Plowden is still at the club, enter the room, take the bag with $50,000, and leave before he comes back. No one is supposed to get hurt. But Plowden, David Taylor, and two women are already moving through the same night, and the timing is starting to trap everyone.

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A slow-burn crime story that turns one night of loose talk into hard consequences.

Episode 2 of The Conviction of Max B keeps tightening the screws on what begins as loose talk about a burglary plan. It moves from a basketball-court conversation to detective questioning without losing the thread, and the strongest stretches are the ones that make the details…

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A basketball-court plan turns into a hotel-room robbery with no car to Jersey.

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