The rental company had delayed charging the final balance intentionally, holding the payment in reserve in case any rented equipment returned damaged. Any repair costs would have been added to the total before the transaction finalized.
Apparently, nothing had been destroyed badly enough to matter.
He scrolled through the itemized list.
The prop firearm rentals.
The flyboard equipment.
The motorcycle fleet.
The traffic vehicles used during post-production, cars driven repeatedly through controlled passes so Zoey could stitch together the illusion of a crowded, high-budget chase sequence.
The rented locations were the hotel suite that had served as the production base.
The improvised control room set for the Ghost Signal opening sequence.
And dozens of smaller expenses, smoke charges, costumes, props, emergency equipment purchases, all the miscellaneous costs Maya had tried to reimburse him for afterward.
Twice.
