The Fucked Leading The Fucked

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In Chapter 8 of THE HEISTERS, we flash back to Kelsey, Ronan, Ludo and Chick planning the robbery of the disaster relief rock concert ...


INT. MOTOR COURT CABIN - NIGHT - FLASHBACK
Ronan, Ludo and Chick
look at Kelsey expectantly.

She drains her beer.
Thinking.

KELSEY
It might work.
But I need to know
more about the setup.
The layout.
How many guards --

RONAN
Yeah, yeah --
I’m gettin’ to that.

He pulls out
a piece of graph paper.
Unfolds it.

Lays it down on the table.
Kelsey comes over. Looks.

RONAN
(points)
Okay.
There’s three box offices,
on the east, west and
north side of the stadium.
Every hour the money
gets picked up from each one
and gets brought over to
the south side where
the finance office
is on the second floor --

KELSEY
Who delivers it?

RONAN
Pair of armed guards.
They take it down a
corridor under the stands.
Be easy to hit,
but they only carry
a couple of grand each trip.
(off Kelsey’s nod)
In the finance office,
the cash is counted
and put into money boxes
that go to the bank.
They’ll be finished before
the concert is over
because they don’t want
the armored car to get
stuck in the traffic jam
that’ll happen when
everyone leaves.

KELSEY
When does it come?

RONAN
When they call for it.
And it doesn’t stay long.
Just long enough to pick up
the dough and split.
It’s flanked by two
local cop cars in front
and back all the way the bank.

KELSEY
What’s the setup
in the finance office?
How many guards?

RONAN
Four armed guards
and six employees.
You go in through
a locked door.
Knock first, and then
they check you out
through a peephole.

KELSEY
And it’s gonna be mostly
small bills, right?

CHICK
(nods)
We figure two big duffle bags
oughta handle it.

Kelsey nods.
Thinking.

KELSEY
Tell me again about the gate.

RONAN
There’s three of them.
They’re old, with
ornamental spikes that go
up almost to the top,
but there’s still room
for someone to climb over it.
They go over, and then
unlock it and let us in.

KELSEY
What if somebody sees us?

RONAN
Already thought of that.
The east gate is where the
photographers take pictures
of the losers who
wait in line all night,
and the west gate
is on the main drag --
but the north gate is
across the street from the park,
which will be empty when we go in.

CHICK
He’s got it covered --

KELSEY
Okay.
Then what?

RONAN
We go through three locks,
and then we’re
in the finance office.

KELSEY
Is there anything going on
there tonight?

RONAN
On a weeknight?
Nah --

KELSEY
Then let’s do a dry run.

LUDO
Tonight?
Right now?

CHICK
You got something better to do?

KELSEY
We need to make
impressions of the locks.
And I want to get
the feel of the place.
Sniff it out.

RONAN
Like a bloodhound, huh?

KELSEY
Nah.
More like a seeing eye dog.

LUDO
How do you figure?

CHICK
The fucked leading the fucked.

KELSEY
Bingo.