Bendini, Lambert & Locke conduct a significant amount of business in the Cayman Islands because of their unique financial and banking system. It is explained to Mitch that they like to take advantage of the lenient tax laws in the Cayman Islands for their many clients, but it is later revealed that they also use the Cayman Islands because their financial laws make it easy to launder money for the Morolto family. For this reason, the firm has two condos on Grand Cayman, the main island. The first time Mitch visits, he is followed and coerced into having a one-night stand with a local sex worker. However, it is also during this stay that Mitch notices the locked room in one of the condos where he later discovers there are incriminating files on the firm’s illegal activities.

Grand Caymans is symbolic both of success and the illegal activities that created that success. When Mitch first hears about the Cayman Islands, he is excited by the idea of going to a vacation paradise for work, but also the idea of having a free place to stay while vacationing on such a luxurious island. However, while there, Mitch is followed, he is set up by the

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