The Firm

Tammy, posing as “Doris Greenwood” (266), rents an office in a building two blocks from the Bendini offices. She fills the office with basic furniture and a copier that is large and capable of copying many sheets of paper at once.

Mitch drives out of town early one afternoon, telling Abby he’s going to see Ray, and gets on a Greyhound bus where he meets Wayne. They discuss financial compensation for Mitch and Abby as well as the possibility of witness protection should Mitch cooperate in a case against the firm. Mitch asks for three million dollars. Wayne promises to run it by Voyles, but stresses that Mitch is vulnerable to being arrested with the other members of the firm if he doesn’t help the FBI.

Mitch goes to a meeting with a client in a building several blocks from the Bendini building. On the elevator, he carefully exchanges briefcases with Tammy. Tammy copies the files inside the briefcase and exchanges it again with Mitch after his meeting. Tammy keeps the copies in a closet in her office. Several days later, Mitch and Abby celebrate her birthday in a restaurant where Mitch has been instructed to pick up an audio cassette. He listens to the cassette, learning that the FBI are willing to give him and Abby one million dollars in exchange for files and Mitch’s testimony. Mitch promises Abby that he can push them up to two million and they’ll run, disappearing from both the firm and the FBI.

Mitch has lunch in the executive dining room with the partners to celebrate his impressive billing hours at the same time Tammy removes files from the trunk of Abby’s car to copy. She takes one set of all the copies she’s made to a storage facility. A few days later, Mitch meets with Wayne and negotiates him up to two million dollars, but Mitch adds the caveat that the FBI help his brother Ray escape jail. Wayne hesitates, but says he thinks he can do it.

Abby and Mitch travel to the Cayman Islands for vacation. Mitch meets with Wayne on Cayman Brac, another island, where Wayne agrees to Mitch’s requirements. Wayne also gives Mitch a description of the men following him on Grand Cayman, allowing him to identify one of DeVasher’s men as he and Abby go to spend the day with Barry Abanks, the father of the dive instructor killed on the day Marty and Joe died. They spend the day with Barry without interference, but Wayne notices and confronts Mitch about it, causing Mitch to become annoyed and claims so many people are following him that he could cause a traffic jam.