Cherol Pam and Ray are trying to figure out how to beat a drug test. Krieger comes in and tells them he can sell them a drug that will fool all drug tests into being a false negative. And when they balk at the price he would sell them this drug at, they complain. So he says “Well you could always try your luck at the old employment market” which causes them to reach into their pockets and pull out cash to buy his drug.
Then comes the joke I don’t understand. As they’re handing him cash, he says “Nonsequential bills please”.
I assume having sequential bills means you can be tracked. But I don’t get how. What’s the joke?
Requesting to be paid in nonsequential bills is something only a criminal would do, so the joke is that the purchase is illegal.
The idea is that if the person paying you is a cop, they’d give you bills they can track down later. I’m not sure if that’s actually done in real life. Apparently a large percentage of printed cash is used for illegal deals, so I dont think criminals are too concerned about being traced by their cash transactions.
It’s easier for the media to say “the criminal was paid in bills with the serial numbers B12340000 to B12349999” than list 9999 different serial numbers for tellers to be on three lookout for.
Banks send bills which are damaged or defaced back to the treasury to be destroyed and get an equal amount of new bills in return. They distribute the new bills. While any individual bill could be traced back to the original bank you got it from, non sequential bills implies they were gathered from various places and have been in circulation long enough that any given bill will have exchanged many hands and thus would be unlikely to be traceable. If you go to a bank and withdraw a bunch of bills, you might receive sequential bills. Showing up to deposit sequential bills which were withdrawn by a single person is solid evidence of you interacting with that person. If they get caught with drugs and their accounts investigated, they might see that they withdrew a bunch of bills that were then deposited by you and come after you
There’s a joke in Archer that I don’t understand.
Cherol Pam and Ray are trying to figure out how to beat a drug test. Krieger comes in and tells them he can sell them a drug that will fool all drug tests into being a false negative. And when they balk at the price he would sell them this drug at, they complain. So he says “Well you could always try your luck at the old employment market” which causes them to reach into their pockets and pull out cash to buy his drug.
Then comes the joke I don’t understand. As they’re handing him cash, he says “Nonsequential bills please”.
I assume having sequential bills means you can be tracked. But I don’t get how. What’s the joke?
Requesting to be paid in nonsequential bills is something only a criminal would do, so the joke is that the purchase is illegal.
The idea is that if the person paying you is a cop, they’d give you bills they can track down later. I’m not sure if that’s actually done in real life. Apparently a large percentage of printed cash is used for illegal deals, so I dont think criminals are too concerned about being traced by their cash transactions.
It’s easier for the media to say “the criminal was paid in bills with the serial numbers B12340000 to B12349999” than list 9999 different serial numbers for tellers to be on three lookout for.
Banks send bills which are damaged or defaced back to the treasury to be destroyed and get an equal amount of new bills in return. They distribute the new bills. While any individual bill could be traced back to the original bank you got it from, non sequential bills implies they were gathered from various places and have been in circulation long enough that any given bill will have exchanged many hands and thus would be unlikely to be traceable. If you go to a bank and withdraw a bunch of bills, you might receive sequential bills. Showing up to deposit sequential bills which were withdrawn by a single person is solid evidence of you interacting with that person. If they get caught with drugs and their accounts investigated, they might see that they withdrew a bunch of bills that were then deposited by you and come after you