If someone later described that prep, after failing the shot, as having been worth any amount of money, I do think that would be pretty weird, even if technical

If someone later described that prep, after failing the shot, as having been worth any amount of money, I do think that would be pretty weird, even if technically there might be some (difficult!) way of valuing it at some fraction of the $1m, according to whatever percent-likelihood chance improvement the pep afforded.