Let's get down! Let's hear you scream!
Wait!
What?
This...
No, later.
No, I want to smoke.
I want to smoke!
Fine. Smoke!
Smoke all night.
Be still. Do not turn around.
Do not turn around. You'll not be hurt.
- Bonjour, Nick. - Bonjour, Madame.
- Voilá. Bonne journée. - Bonne journée á vous.
Albert. Ca va?
- Ca va. - Boss, hi!
- Jean-Claude. - So, the trip was good?
Trés bien.
- How we doing? - Great. Many reservations for tonight.
- Good. How many covers last night? - Over 1 50.
- Good. - The bar was steady.
- How was the music? - Great band!
Good, good...
Albert...
Scotch on the rocks. A little water.
- Yeah, sure. - Merci!
Attention, mes enfants!
- C'est grand-pére. J'arrive. - Monsieur Max, comment vas-tu?
- Oú est Nicky? - Juste en haut.
Max!
Voilá! Back from Bermuda.
Good trip?
Not as interesting as yours, I'm sure.
My God. Let me get a look at you.
You look like shit! What's your secret?
- Jean-Claude, set up number two. - Yeah, sure.
J'ai une grande soif et j'ai besoin d'un peu de glace.
Tout de suite.
- Merci. - Give us a little room.
Et voilá. A votre santé, Monsieur Max.
Bermuda.
Ah, God!
Well...
- It was pretty tight out there. - Good. It'll keep you sharp.
I got a minor development.
- We lost the buyer. - What do you mean?
She's in a brass casket, 6 feet under ground never to be heard from again.
I fronted 20,000 in expenses. I'm due that plus two-fifty for my end.
You think I won't take care of you and cover your expenses?
It's not about expenses, I want the money. Find another buyer.
Of course! But shit happens!
It'll drag on. You gotta be patient. Wait a minute!
How about this? Four big ones in your hand...
- $4 million in your mit. - $4 million?
More than you ever dreamed of. More than we ever did together!
- $4 million... What are you into? - Well, I spotted an exceptional item.
It was European antiquity...
Elegant and in the hands of this dumb prick that didn't know what he had.
And unfortunately it's become detained in transit a little...
You don't wanna know where?
- It depends. - Depends on what?
It depends on what you're gonna tell me.
It's in the Montreal Customs House.
- No. No way. - Oh, yeah.
- Forget it. - Wait a minute.
I got a guy...
...he gives you the whole layout, handles security, everything.
You used to tell me:
"Steal outside the country, in the States, in Europe, but live in Montreal."
I said a lot of dumb things in my day, didn't l?
Let's just find another buyer for this, OK? I gotta open the place.
OK, but I'm not finished talking about this.
- Jean-Claude, Albert! Come on! - You're making a large error here.
Not bad.
- Yeah? - Ijust landed. I got the delivery.
- You got the bag? - Yeah, right here.
- Where's Johnny? - He got it in lstanbul, through the neck!
- Jesus. He was a good kid. - Yeah. Good and dead.
- You want to talk or see what I got? - How can I be sure you're OK?
- I suppose I could fuck you. - That would work!
Hey... You OK?
Yeah...great.
- How was your trip? - I dunno...
Cities!
They are all starting to look the same. They really are.
And the pasta in Rome is not as good as yours.
And the ass-pinchers! They used to look so charmingly European!
Not as good as me?
Common!
It must be what it is about you I like, because you are definitely not common.
- What if I were...? - Were what?
...a little more common, you know, and around more?
- How much more? - Like all-the-time more?
If I was just a jazz club owner and not that other thing. How'd you feel?
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
I think that's what I'm saying.
Hey, baby, you know I'd never ask you to change anything for me. Right?
I know that. I'm just asking how would you feel about that?
I dunno...
I suppose I'd have to give it some serious thought.
Then you'd better start giving it some serious thought.
Thank you. I'll see you when I see you?
See you when I see you.
- Madame... - Alors!
- Voilá. Bonne journée. - Merci.
Excuse me. Can you help me, please?
C-Can you help me?
- Place Norman? - Yes. Yes.
Go to the corner, make a right, go two blocks...
- Two blocks, then a left... - Again, please.
Two blocks on the corner, two blocks this way, one block left.
- And you're there. - OK, thank you.
Thank you, Nick.
What? What did you say?
I said, "Thank you, Nick."
I'm Max's guy in the Customs House. We should talk.
OK, bye-bye. Thank you.
Thank you. Bye!
- Where's Max? - He's in the sun room.
- Max... - Nicolai, Nicolai.
Have you lost your fucking mind?!
My mind? Yes, years ago. Why?
- What did you tell this kid? - Who?
Your inside guy with the retard act.
He was in front of my house, he knew who I was.
He must have followed me to the club and seen you.
Tell him next time he'll wind up in the hospital.
Wait a minute. You think I'd set you up with a jerk-off heister?
You gotta admit the kid did a good show.
I don't give a shit. Don't expose me like that.
You've got it pre-wired, turn the key...
I'm not interested.
You'll never get another chance. What's the matter with you?
- Why are you pushing this? - Four million balls, that's why!
He's pushing it 'cause we're running out of time.
I'm saying if I'm gonna work with a partner we gotta start now.
- What are you doing in my house? - All I'm saying...
- What the fuck does this kid know? - I've been on this for 3 weeks.
I gotta know if you're the guy Max says you are.
- I gotta go. - Nick! Nick! Wait!
- Nicky! - Hey! I didn't come 500 miles to...
- Jack Teller, nice to meet you. - You don't know where your dick is!
We decided you'd sit tight until I called. Right?
I thought I could help. You said he was in.
Don't be so creative. Get the fuck outta my house!
When you get your shit together, call me!
Unbelievable!
Jesus! Take it easy!
Listen close... Leave town tonight, don't come back.
I see you again, I break your knees.
I see you around Nick, I'll kill you. It's a dangerous game you're playing.
Are we clear?
Yeah, we're clear.
How did it go?
Not as planned.
- What do you want? - Some respect from you for starters!
I mean, what are you thinking? I'm on a job here.
If you just don't want to come in on it, say no.
Don't send some fucking third-rate Rent-a-Thug. Do it like a professional!
Hello...?
Yeah... OK.
He's right here. Don't worry. Go home. I'll call you later.
All right? That's OK.
OK.
I didn't come here to cause any trouble. All right? I didn't.
Coming up to you on the street, that was a stupid move.
Sorry. Why don't we just call it even?
I just want to say one thing to you and then I'll go away if you want.
I have been casing this place for a couple of weeks, now.
It's a little bit complicated, but it's a very doable job.
I can handle the system in there if someone else can break into this box.
I don't know you. You don't know me. It's not the best way to do things, but...
I am very good at what I do.
And I take it very, very seriously. Check it out with Max.
If you are the guy that he says you are, then...
...we should check this out, take a look at it. That's all I'm saying.
This is a very big pay-off for very acceptable risks.
Go take a look at it for yourself.
I like your place.
You got good taste.
Jesus! It's nice and dark in here! Fucking everything!
- Hey! Nick! - Max!
Jesus!
Why don't you jump for some lights?
Every time I come in here, I have to play hide-and-seek!
How are you?
Now, you gotta tell me the...
...the magic word.
All right. I'm going to do it.
Good, good. Jesus! Sweetheart!
You're a sweetheart!
Bravo! You're making sense.
But because of the risk involved my end's gotta be $6 million.
Operator? I gotta nut down here that just said $6 million.
No. Send paramedics.
- You all right? - I'm fine.
Six fucking million?! What happened to four?
No. It's my backyard. I'm not going to go like that.
If you want me to do this, pay me right.
I always pay you right.
You think you pay me right, but I know.
It's not always right. I need this for this.
I like your style. Yeah, well, OK, I understand.
That's what I have to do. I want to pay off the mortgage.
I want to own this place, free and clear.
I live the way I want. Because after this, no more jobs.
I'm quitting.
How many times you told me that?
I'll believe that when the pigs eat my brother.
- Right? - I'm done. No more.
Well, OK. I hope she's worth it.
It's Numb Nuts.
Nice house. Nice club. You must be really good.
I don't want to have to do this but raise your arms.
Be my guest.
He's all right.
OK?
Is this a social call? What are we doing?
I will explore this with you. But I run this operation down to the last detail.
If you have a problem with that, we can go home right now.
- Is there a problem with that? - That's fine.
Tell me everything you know, then I'll design the plan.
If I smell something about the job or you I don't like, I walk away.
If you're not living up to your end of it,
or if you hold out on me in any way, I walk. Understood?
That's fine. Tell me what you want to know.
- First of all, what are we looking for? - Know what a sceptre is?
It's...something that a king holds.
Right there.
It was made in 1 661 in France
for a special coronation... for a girl queen.
- It's priceless. - Not to us, it's not.
- What about the specific location? - I can give you the whole building.
I got floor plans. I've been clocking security patterns for over three weeks.
All right. Paint me a picture.
OK. He fixed me up with the job.
- Not me...Brian, the guy on the street. - I remember.
Is he traceable? Phone number, address?
No, it's totally tight. It's a charity case, a favour. He doesn't exist on paper.
He just shows up as assistant janitor, midnight to 8 a.m.
The security's basic. At night theyjust lock it down.
They bar the groundfloor windows. You can only enter by the truck court.
Thank you, Albert. Thank you.
Manpower's very light. One guy sitting outside, keeping an eye on things.
Inside, everyone's got to come in through a standard metal-detector.
It's a little tricky bringing things in, but I think I've figured it out.
The guards know me, nobody looks too close.
- OK, thank you. - All right.
Once I'm inside, I can go anywhere I want.
Everything gets run from this one central console.
They got fixed video systems in the elevators and hallways,
a couple ofmagnetic doors, all very basic.
Lots of overtime! Not so much now.
The headjanitor's this old guy, Danny. He loves Brian. Loves him!
I got this guy wrapped around my finger.
He'd do anything for me.
Most of the time he's got me working with him. Low level shit, helping out.
But I can get away from him, I've lots ofreasons.
I've sketched half the place already. Copied keys.
I can get you access to any room.
Where's the sceptre?
Well, you see...that's the kink.
Now get this!
It was arranged to be brought into the country
inside the leg of an antique piano!
And it was so simple... and then they impounded it!
Can you guess why?
Fucking bugs!
The whole shipment was contaminated with termites.
Asian longhorned beetles!
We got fucked by bugs!
They burrow into the wood, into the shipment crates.
So they delivered most of the goods,
but the piano's wooden, so they impounded it.
They put the whole thing in quarantine in a medium-security lock-up.
They're scary things, and they can't send them back to France.
So they decide to burn everything.
Now...l'll tell you, I don't know which fucking leg it's in.
But I was tempted tojust grab 'em all and run!
I dunno if the thing's going to melt or what.
I mean, I was dying!
So I had to improvise a little bit.
Laurent! I saw something in the fire.
- It's burning... - No, look, look!
I saw...something...in the piano.
In the piano, look!
I saw something!
Everybody's freaking out. Nobody knows what to do.
They don't see this kind of excitement. So they get this supervisor outta bed.
He takes one look, he doesn't know what it is, but he knows it's worth a lot.
He tells them, till it's sorted out, to put it in a box in the basement,
and that's what they do.
- It's not a toy. - I want to see. Can I see?
- No. Come on, let's go. - OK. Bye-bye.
The basement is the most secure lock-up in Eastern Canada.
It was a bomb shelter during the Cold War.
They put all their important stuff in here, State's evidence, narcotics, weapons.
That sceptre is somewhere in the safe.
The thing is, there's no cameras. I'd have seen them on the monitors.
So if we put you inside, you can work on it all night.
We'll need pictures of the safe or a model number.
Then we'll need plans, infrastructure, maps, blueprints, anything.
That's all for now. Give me two days.
We just got to find a way into that basement.
- You gonna let it go or stay pissed? - Kiss my ass.
- We're about set up here. You ready? - Hold on.
- Want to give me a mark? - Not yet. Not yet.
- How are you doing? - Stay off the air till I call.
Three-three, two-six. Two-nine, three-two.
I repeat: 33, 26, 29, 32.
Copy that. Three-three, two-six, two-nine, three-two.
Make a right. Proceed east about 20 yards.
You should see the next opening.
I'm at a wall here, a cinder-block wall, where you told me I have to go.
You're sure? It's a straight shot on here.
It's not my imagination!
Wanna come see for yourself?
Right. OK, hold on.
Give me a second.
- Can you read me? - Make a left, 20 feet.
You'll run into a parallel tunnel, make a right, back on course.
Take the tunnel 150 yards west.
- You'll reach a T-junction. - About 300 yards.
- Came to the end, made a right. - Head northeast. Northeast.
One second, hold on.
- You with me? - Going west. Going west. All right.
Right. Go 40 yards east, then make a left turn.
Left turn...then make a right.
It'll be 500 yards to go.
OK, straight ahead, 20 feet, you'll be under the room.
The tunnel will continue,
but look up and you'll see the access ladder.
I'm at a shaft. I'm going to climb up.
What are you doing?
Still climbing.
This looks like it.
I'm done.
Who the hell is this?
There's a utility crew at the entrance.
You'll have to find another way out.
Where are you?
At De La Montagne and Ottawa.
- Repeat: De La Montagne, Ottawa. - Got it. We're on our way.
This should be it, right there.
OK, we're just trying to find you.
There. He's right over there.
OK, you're all clear.
Coming out.
Officer! Pardonnez-moi.
- Je suis...perdu. - Oui.
J'ai besoin de... Comment s'appelle...?
- Rue Bonsecours. - Rue Bonsecours?
Deux routes par lá, puis tournez á gauche.
Merci. Bonsoir.
Hello!
Anybody home?
Hey! Champagne! Nice touch.
- Nice dress. - You like?
- Yeah. - Thank you.
So...you asked me a question a couple of days ago.
And you gave it some serious thought?
Actually I forgot the question!
Here's my answer.
- You're not holding up your glass. - Sorry.
My father was a lawyer, a very smart man, and he always said,
"A deal is good if it leaves both parties feeling as if they gave up something."
Is an answer coming soon, 'cause the glass is getting heavy?
OK...
I will change my life.
I will move here.
I will love you.
And believe that this is the best decision I've made.
But I will not move here if it means...
...l have to talk to you through glass. I won't spend my nights worrying.
So...
If you can promise me as of now that you're through,
then we can drink to making changes.
- I said you could drink now. - I know.
I wanna do all that.
I just have to tell you that I'm doing one more thing...
...and that's it.
Everything you said is great, perfect. I just have one more thing I have to do.
I don't believe you asked me when you knew you couldn't follow through!
- I'm following through. It's my last... - Sure!
- I promise you, it is my last one. - Then quit. Quit now.
- What's 'one last one' mean? - We don't need anything.
I didn't need anything before, and I don't need anything now.
What I wanted was to be with you.
What I didn't need was this painful bullshit!
My life wasn't perfect before, but at least we were clear.
- You gotta give me some... - Shh! No.
See you when I see you.
Hey! What are you doing?
Somebody put fingerprints on my window.
- You don't need to do it. - I like a clean window.
It's all right. We missed you last night.
- Feeling better? - Yes, thank you.
- Sure? - I'm OK.
- Take your time. - OK, bye-bye!
Bye-bye!
That's your safe.
Traeger standing jeweller's safe. This year's model.
If it's new, it'll be tough getting the schematics.
I've got all this year's books, yeah. What else?
OK. The system's lronclad Security, a big commercial industrial outfit,
handling a lot of the government buildings.
This building's old, the lines are easy to find.
I can cut in three or four different places and let you in.
But I gotta have the pass codes.
They don't keep them in here. They'll be at lronclad.
- I dunno know what to do. - OK...
You're calling someone now?
- Who is this? - Me. Turn down the music.
Hey, Nick. I am fucked up. My mother's totally out of control.
Listen carefully.
- Ironclad Security. - Big outfit.
I need pass codes for the Customs House.
Man, my concentration's shot, I haven't slept in a month. Wait...
- What Customs House? - Montreal.
You're not pissing in our own pool?
You said you'd never do a job in Montreal!
- I know. Can you do it? - Steven!
Who are you talking to?
I'm having a civil fucking conversation with a friend, Mother!
- Are you OK? - She is a ghoul!
- Now, tell me exactly what you want. - One second.
I'll put someone on to tell you what we need.
Just tell him what you need.
I need disarm and reset master codes for the system.
I need individual sector bypass codes
to shut down one zone without lighting off the whole board. OK?
Yes.
- You got that? - Got it.
I'm gonna need this in 48 hours.
I'll double your last price.
Dude, give me a Kaypro 64 and a live dial tone and I can do anything!
Now you are going to die!
This is someone you work with?
And you're giving me a hard time!
Thursday, 8.07 a.m.
Hi, got your message.
I got to cover for a sick stewardess on a New York run.
We have to talk when I come through in a couple of days. Bye.
End ofmessages.
Just lock it.
You work here?
No. Here.
Come on.
Come on, come on!
Want some coffee?
Yeah, yeah...
Is this what we're dealing with?
Page 720.
Where can I get one of these?
You gotta know the right people.
Traeger floor safe... Here it is.
"Solid steel body."
"Filled door with aluminium and cobalt."
"Half inch hard plate."
"Double dial."
You'll need 2-3 hours to drill through that.
- You can't drill this. - Why not?
'Cause this is a newer model with these glass packs.
See the glass pack, here?
See that? Drill through that, the glass breaks and the bolts spring into place.
They're locked. Not even with a bulldozer!
What do you have in mind?
I don't know, but if somebody built it, somebody can unbuild it.
When I shut it down, this light'll go off, but it won't register in the booth.
- Is that your box? - That's it.
That's a fucking monster. It's three times the size of this.
See that over there?
See it better over here.
That's an active infrared post.
That wasn't on the system specs.
That's some independent loop set up in the cage.
I'll take care of it.
Yeah?
All right...just calm down. OK?
I'll be over in a few minutes.
I gotta do something. I'll drop you off.
My mom's only out for half an hour.
- What's the emergency? - I was cruising lronclad's server...
...at the COBOL level, when someone hacked back into my machines!
For 3 minutes I was fully exposed!
Now, I have to firewall my whole operation from scratch.
- Can you just tell me that in English? - Sorry...
I was just about to pull up those codes when I hit a guy on the other end.
- What's on the other end? - Ironclad's computers.
I guess he's some low-level administrator, so...
...we switch to a private chat room, and he sends me this...
Can you believe that? He comes into my world and calls me an asshole!
And the bypass codes?
I type "How much?" He says, "For the codes?"
I say, "You guessed it." He says, "Fuck you!"
I say, "No, fuck you!" and he says, "Fuck you!" I say, "Fuck you!" and...
Steven... Can you get me the bypass codes?
The guy wants fifty thou' in exchange for the codes.
- 50,000...? - Yes.
Get the account. I'll wire the money, he'll deliver to you.
Negative. No transfers.
He wants cash, and he wants to do it in person.
- Anything else? - No.
You set it up. Stay, I'll let myself out.
When this whole score's done, I'll brute this creep with all I got!
This fuck won't be able to hide in Bolivia!
Jesus! Look at all these people!
Who sets up a meeting in a public park?
- You see him? - Still looking.
Got him. They brought back-up.
OK, I got him.
How you doing? Good to see you. Shake my hand. That's right.
- You my guy? - Yeah.
Who's this?
- Cousin. - Cousin?
OK. See the guy back there reading the paper, the big one?
That's my cousin. OK?
So we've all got family here, which is nice, yeah?
I'll give you that. Take a look inside, make sure you're happy.
Don't take that out!
Don't give me orders, I get orders all day.
You can't count money in public.
That's why you don't set a meeting in a park...for future reference.
Just flip through it in the bag.
- Set to go. You ready? - What the fuck are you doing?
Give me the numbers, and I'll read them into a mike
to get them checked out.
Think I was going to write it down on a napkin?
- Ready. - OK, you're on.
First set...
3-1 -7.
- 3-1 -7. - Got it. 3- 1-7.
Steven...
...3-1 -7.
Confirm 3- 1-7.
It'll just be a second.
You guys maternal cousins or what?
- First numbers are clean. - They're clean.
Tell the hack at the other end if he tries to get in again, I'll fry him.
Worry about next time next time.
Let's finish before people start looking. Give me the second set.
- 9-4-6. - 9-4-6.
9-4-6. I repeat: 9-4-6.
9-4-6.
- Take it easy. Have a smoke. - I don't smoke.
I don't smoke, either, so good for us.
- You guys local? You live around here? - Why so many fucking questions?
- They're good. - Second set is good.
What's the third one?
5-8-3-9.
5-8-3-9, got it.
5-8...
...3-9.
- This is taking too long. I'm losing it! - Shut up, Eric!
They have to verify the numbers. It takes time.
Relax, Eric.
- Help! It's amateur hour here! - Fuck you!
- What are you doing? - One of them has a gun.
- How's it going? - I'm working it, man!
- Steven, want some lunch? - I'm on the phone, bitch!
- All right? - Fine. Nobody move.
Eric, look in my hand right now.
If you take that, I'll take this out... Be a big fucking mess.
Put it away, Eric.
What were you thinking?
Put it away. Take a deep breath. Just put it in your back pocket.
Put it away.
- They're all good. - Last set confirmed.
Last set confirmed. Let's get out of here.
- Next time don't bring a gun. - Listen...
I thought I might need one, and I did...
Don't bring a gun.
Jesus...Christ!
I called, they said you hadn't checked in yet. No...
So what time are you getting in?
Come on, don't stay at a hotel.
Just come over to my place. I'll cook...
Yeah...
I was just saying come to my place, I'll cook something, we'll talk, OK?
- This is good. - Yeah.
When you gotta be there?
I'll go in a couple of hours. I'm OK, fine.
Listen, tell me something...
All the years you've been doing this,
what's the biggest gamble you ever took on a job, the biggest long shot?
I don't take long shots.
I know you're careful. I'm careful, too. That's not what I mean.
When you were starting out,
you must've done something a little wild, I'm just curious...
I never took long shots.
I'm gonna say something to you.
You're smart, you're talented,
but it's nothing if you don't make the right choices.
Many talented people never see the light of day.
Lastly, it takes discipline, 'cause this whole game is a long shot.
If you don't have the discipline to avoid the gambles, the stupid moves,
then, my friend, one day you will go down, it's inevitable.
You want my advice?
List everything you want now,
then spend the next 25 years getting it...slowly...piece by piece.
I see what you're saying.
But still...you got all this already.
And you're still working with a partner,
in your own city on a job that's more complicated than you thought.
So you're still taking a shot at something.