At this point, the reward for apprehending the bank robber has expired. Though Fix is the antagonist of the novel, his motive shifts here—whereas he was initially driven to arrest Fogg for the money, he is now purely motivated by his duty to uphold the law and his reputation as a detective. In this sense, he is not so different from Fogg, who is completing the wager in order to live up to his own reputation as an honorable man of his word.