In Chap­ter 98 of “We Solve Mur­ders,” Bon­nie finds her­self back at her moth­er’s home after an unex­pect­ed can­cel­la­tion of a job that she had been count­ing on. Her moth­er’s reac­tion is far from warm, cast­ing a shad­ow over Bonnie’s return. She can sense the dis­ap­point­ment in her mother’s expres­sion as she breaks the news, which leaves Bon­nie con­tem­plat­ing her own life choic­es. Three days lat­er, Bon­nie sits in Felic­i­ty’s office, accom­pa­nied by Tony, and the two of them are star­ing at a large holdall filled with over a mil­lion pounds, a dis­cov­ery that nei­ther of them had antic­i­pat­ed when they cut the bag open. Felic­i­ty, ever the prag­ma­tist, con­sid­ers hand­ing the mon­ey over to the police but is torn by the idea. Mean­while, Tony, see­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty, argues that such an amount of mon­ey could change Bon­nie’s life and secure the futures of her chil­dren, giv­ing them a chance at a bet­ter life. Bon­nie, on the oth­er hand, is firm in her belief that the mon­ey is taint­ed and, although it is phys­i­cal­ly clean, it does­n’t belong to her, and tak­ing it would feel wrong. She insists that it rep­re­sents illic­it gains, some­thing she can’t accept, despite the tempt­ing idea of what it could bring.

As the con­ver­sa­tion con­tin­ues, Tony and Felic­i­ty chal­lenge Bon­nie’s assump­tions, sug­gest­ing that the mon­ey is not inher­ent­ly crim­i­nal, as it does­n’t involve drugs or any­thing ille­gal on the sur­face. Felic­i­ty then reveals that the mon­ey belongs to Mick­ey Moody, a man cur­rent­ly arrest­ed for mur­der, which adds an inter­est­ing twist to the sit­u­a­tion. Felic­i­ty believes that Bon­nie should keep it, as there’s no indi­ca­tion or note ask­ing for its return. Bon­nie, how­ev­er, strug­gles with the eth­i­cal dilem­ma, as she has always prid­ed her­self on earn­ing an hon­est liv­ing and not rely­ing on wealth gained from dubi­ous sources. Felic­i­ty, sens­ing Bon­nie’s hes­i­ta­tion, sug­gests that she could act as her agent, help­ing her nav­i­gate this moral­ly com­plex sit­u­a­tion. The idea is to trans­form the mon­ey into a legit­i­mate busi­ness ven­ture that could, in turn, help oth­ers, offer­ing a new and more pos­i­tive pur­pose for the mon­ey.

Bon­nie, although still unsure, is reas­sured by Felicity’s argu­ment that they can find a way to chan­nel the mon­ey through legal means, com­mit­ting a por­tion of it to help the fam­i­lies of vic­tims who have suf­fered from vio­lence. This offers a sense of redemp­tion for what would oth­er­wise be con­sid­ered blood mon­ey. Despite her wor­ries about how to explain the sit­u­a­tion to her fam­i­ly, Felic­i­ty con­vinces her that hard work, deter­mi­na­tion, and integri­ty will be the keys to suc­cess, even with­out the sup­port of rich par­ents or con­ven­tion­al resources. They engage in a dis­cus­sion about the impor­tance of self-belief and how luck plays a role in suc­cess. Felic­i­ty empha­sizes that Bon­nie has already demon­strat­ed self-belief by com­ing to see her and ask­ing for guid­ance, which marks the begin­ning of her jour­ney towards some­thing bet­ter. The chap­ter explores the com­plex­i­ties of moral­i­ty, the allure of finan­cial free­dom, and the con­stant bat­tle between doing what is right and seiz­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties that seem too good to pass up.

Bon­nie slow­ly begins to real­ize that the deci­sion she is fac­ing is not sim­ply about the money—it’s about her own jour­ney toward self-reliance and find­ing a way to move for­ward in life, even when things seem uncer­tain. She appre­ci­ates Felic­i­ty and Tony’s sup­port, as they lay out a plan to turn the ques­tion­able sum into some­thing pos­i­tive. The moral gray areas pre­sent­ed in this chap­ter speak to the chal­lenges indi­vid­u­als face when con­front­ed with deci­sions that offer both rewards and con­se­quences. Bon­nie acknowl­edges the poten­tial to turn the sit­u­a­tion into a life-chang­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty, despite its dubi­ous ori­gins, under­stand­ing that it’s pos­si­ble to rewrite her future with the right guid­ance. This chap­ter, through its explo­ration of moral­i­ty, wealth, and iden­ti­ty, under­scores the com­plex nature of deci­sions and the pow­er of tak­ing con­trol of one’s des­tiny, even in the face of uncer­tain­ty.