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Frank and Ray enter Ray's apartment. It's a real rat-hole. Ray picks up a Bud tall-boy off the table and takes a slug. RAY
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RAY Ray hands him the beer he's drinking. Frank takes it and sets it down on the table. Ray sits down at the table. Frank goes to the window and looks out at his car. EXT. RAY'S BUILDING - DAY Frank sees his car, which is fine, however a street gang is hanging out on top of it. INT. RAY'S APARTMENT - DAY Frank steps away from the window. FRANK
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FRANK RAY Ray goes over to a cabinet, opens it and reveals literally hundreds of car hood ornaments of all descriptions. He picks one out and tosses it to Frank. RAY Frank is surprised and puts it in his pocket. FRANK Ray takes out two envelopes full of money and tosses one to Frank. RAY Frank opens the envelope and looks at the money. Fifty one hundred dollar bills. Frank smiles. FRANK RAY FRANK RAY FRANK
Frank removes the instructions from his envelope. Ray sits down at the table and follows suit. They each look at a thick pile of papers, diagrams and schedules. FRANK
Ray puts the papers aside. RAY
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Shaking his head. FRANK
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Frank expression suddenly changes. RAY FRANK Frank takes a big swig of his beer and it's warm, possibly closer to hot. Frank swallows and winces. Ray winks at him. RAY
DISSOLVE TO: EXT. RURAL HIGHWAY - DAY Frank's Impala drives up a rural stretch of highway.
Frank drives and Ray sits in the passenger seat. The maps and diagrams lay on the seat between them. RAY
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RAY Frank looks like he's getting angry. FRANK
Frank pulls out into the passing lane and floors it. EXT. RURAL HIGHWAY - DAY Frank's car begins building speed. At the same time black smoke starts to billow out of the tail pipe. INT. FRANK'S CAR - DAY Ray is looking even more skeptical as the car's engine begins making strange noises. In a moment the red oil light goes on and the car starts to shimmy and slow down. Ray glances at the speedometer. RAY
FRANK RAY FRANK RAY Frank shakes his head and sighs. FRANK RAY FRANK RAY FRANK RAY FRANK RAY Frank sees the detour up ahead and points. FRANK
EXT. THE DEERFIELD DETOUR - DAY There is a detour set up at the Deerfield exit. Flashing lights and sawhorses veer cars off of the highway and onto a smaller road. Frank's car is veered off onto the smaller road. EXT. SMALLER ROAD - DAY Frank's car drives up the road. They pass an abandoned gas station and see a little dirt road that goes behind a billboard. They turn off onto the dirt road. EXT. DIRT ROAD BEHIND BILLBOARD - DAY Frank's car stops. It is hidden behind the billboard. INT. FRANK'S CAR - DAY Frank and Ray look at the plans and diagrams. FRANK
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Frank thinks for a second. FRANK
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RAY DISSOLVE TO: EXT. THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF N.Y. - LOADING DOCK - DUSK At the loading dock, behind the bank, an armored car sits with it's back doors open. Guards with shotguns stand around watching as, two other guards come out of the bank with sacks of money and load them into the armored car. Leonard Woodward watches apprehensively. He nervously lights a cigarette. Charles Campbell stands beside him and notices the cigarette. CAMPBELL WOODWARD CAMPBELL WOODWARD One of the guards mistakenly drops a sack of money. When it hits the ground it opens and several packets of money drop out. Woodward gasps. WOODWARD The guard picks up the packets of money and returns them to the sack. GUARD
#1 The sack goes into the armored car. The back doors are shut and locked. Leonard Woodward wipes the perspiration from his brow and breathes a sigh of relief. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. THE DEERFIELD DETOUR - NIGHT On Interstate 26 there is a detour set up at the Deerfield exit. Flashing lights on sawhorses veer the cars off the Interstate and through the small rural town of Deerfield. EXT. ABANDONED ROAD BEHIND BILLBOARD - NIGHT Ray and Frank sit in Ray's truck wearing orange jump suits and smoking cigarettes. To their left is the Interstate and to their right is an abandoned gas station. They watch as an occasional car is detoured off the main highway and down the road in front of them. Frank looks at his watch and sees that it is 9:00. Frank points his finger at the road. FRANK At that moment the armored car with "FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK" on its side veers off the Interstate and onto the exit. Frank turns to Ray. FRANK RAY FRANK RAY Ray reaches into a bag and takes out two packages of stockings. Frank rips his open and sees... FRANK RAY Frank shrugs and puts the panty-hose on his head. His face is flattened and looks ridiculous. The two legs form rabbit ears. Ray looks at him and starts to laugh. FRANK
Ray and Frank jump out of the truck. Frank disappears around back. Ray puts on an orange hardhat, picks up a sawhorse with a flashing arrow on it and walks out into the middle of the road. Ray sets up the sawhorse so that the armored car, which is approaching, is veered off the road onto the abandoned strip of road running up to the deserted gas station. As the armored car nears the new detour Ray waves them over. The armored car does just as it's told, turning onto the rutted road. Once the armored car has passed, Ray picks up the sawhorse, tosses it in the back of the truck. He quickly puts the panty-hose over his head and runs up the abandoned road. INT. ARMORED CAR - NIGHT The driver begins bouncing up and down as he drives over the ruts. The guard in the back slides open the little slot between them. GUARD
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Suddenly someone runs into the road in front of them and the armored car runs them over. DRIVER He slams on the brakes and the armored car skids to a halt. GUARD DRIVER
EXT. ARMORED CAR - NIGHT The driver gets out of the cab. He goes around to the front of the truck and sees someone pinned under his wheel, horribly contorted. As he gets closer he sees that the contorted figure under the wheels looks strikingly like Richard Nixon! DRIVER
INT. ARMORED CAR - NIGHT The Guard in the back, a pump shotgun in his hand, is in a panic. GUARD
In the slot in the side of the armored car the Driver's face appears and the Guard sees him. DRIVER
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The Guard quickly unlocks the back door, opens it and there's Ray waiting with his fist pulled all the way back. Ray wallops him with a haymaker and knocks the Guard out. EXT. ARMORED CAR - NIGHT Frank is holding the unconscious Driver up to the slot in the side of the armored car. He drops his body beside a life-size dummy with a rubber Richard Nixon mask on. INT. ARMORED CAR - NIGHT Ray and Frank climb into the back of the armored car and begin unloading the bags of money. Ray pulls one of the bags open and sees big stacks of bills. RAY
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The two guards begin to moan. They load the bags of money into the cab of the pickup and drive away. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Ray hauls up the road and Frank counts the money. He counts twenty packets of ten thousand dollars in each of the ten bags. FRANK
RAY FRANK RAY They both begin to hoot and holler wildly. EXT. TRAFFIC JAM - NIGHT The truck arrives at a line of cars waiting to get off the detour and onto the freeway. They stop at the end of the line and also wait. Behind them a pair of headlights approaches. Neither Ray nor Frank notices as the headlights behind them get closer and we see that it is the armored car. The two guards are rubbing their aching heads when they suddenly realize who is in front of them. RAY Ray glances in the rearview mirror. He sees the armored car pull up behind them. The angry Guard points at him. RAY Ray slams the stick shift into gear and floors it. The armored car goes after them. EXT. ROAD BESIDE THE WOODS - NIGHT The truck drives off the edge of the road and beside the woods, kicking up huge clumps of dirt with its big knobby tires. They pass all of the cars sitting and waiting to get on the highway, then turns into the thick of the woods. The armored car follows. EXT WITHIN THE WOODS - NIGHT Ray's truck blasts through the woods at a fast pace. It becomes quickly apparent that armored cars were never meant to go four-wheeling. It bounces up and down, almost out of control. The Guard fires his shotgun at the pickup truck, but he is bouncing so much that he can't take aim and instead blows branches off of the tops of trees. It's very rough going for both vehicles and the armored car begins gaining on Ray and Frank. Ray sees this in the rearview mirror and turns to Frank. RAY
Frank looks out the window at the trees and branches quickly rushing past. FRANK
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Frank opens the door and sees the ground zooming past. He crawls out onto the side of the truck and into the back. Frank begins picking up boxes and throwing them at the armored car. Nothing seems to have much effect, so Frank throws a huge knobby spare tire at them, which dents the grill, but bounces off. Ray sees this and winces. Just then a large tree branch cracks Frank in the back of the head, knocking him on his face in the back of the truck. He gets back to his feet and crawls back along the side of the truck into the cab. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Ray yells at him. RAY
At which point Ray begins driving right toward a big rock. FRANK
Ray continues to drive right at the rock. Frank starts to holler. The pickup truck has high enough clearance and goes right over the rock. The armored car does not have anywhere near that kind of clearance and crashes right into the rock. The back tires of the armored car buck into the air, then smash down. It's totaled. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Ray and Frank both look back at the destruction and scream with happiness. FRANK
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Ray's truck climbs up the bluff and they are back on the Interstate. Ray kicks it to the floor, burns rubber and they're gone. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Ray points up ahead. RAY
Ray turns off at the exit and begins slowing down. Frank shakes his head. FRANK
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Frank waves his hand at the dark deserted road. FRANK
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EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT They arrive at some train tracks just as the bell is ringing, the gate has gone down and a train comes past. FRANK RAY FRANK
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They both glare at each other. The veins in Frank's temples throb. FRANK RAY FRANK Frank opens the sack and takes out a packet of money. He flips through it and his eyes widen in horror. FRANK RAY Frank holds the packet up to Ray's face. FRANK Frank looks closer at the real-looking top and bottom bills that sandwich the cut newspaper. FRANK RAY When the caboose of the train passes it reveals eight police cars with their flashers and spotlights shining. A multitude of cops have weapons aimed at them. FRANK RAY
Ray slams it in gear, puts the pedal to metal and makes a hard right turn up the dirt road next to the train tracks. He sprays a rooster-tail of dirt and rocks and tries to catch up with the train. The eight police cars hit their sirens, cross the railroad tracks, make a left on the dirt road and give chase. EXT. ROAD NEXT TO RAILROAD TRACKS - NIGHT Ray has the truck at about 85-mph and begins to catch up with the caboose of the train. He goes from 85- to 100-mph, comes around a curve and up ahead the road ends at a cement wall. Ray's and Frank's eyes widen in terror as Ray jerks the wheel and drives up onto the tracks. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Frank and Ray are having the living shit shaken out of them. The ashtray pops out and lands on the floor. The glove box drops open and everything falls out. RAY
Frank turns and sees all the police cars following. Ray sees the road reappear next to the railroad tracks. He swerves off the tracks and back onto the road. EXT. ROAD NEXT TO RAILROAD TRACKS - NIGHT Ray floors it and catches up with the train. He passes the boxcars one by one. The police are still in close pursuit. In the distance ahead is a large suspension bridge and a river. Ray and Frank are neck and neck with the front end of the train. The river is coming up fast. Frank puts his hands in front of his terrified face. The cops are right behind. At the last possible second Ray jerks the steering wheel hard to the left and passes the train with only inches to spare. Ray's truck crosses the train tracks onto the main road. The train reaches the bridge. The police cars all have to slam on their brakes before plummeting into the river twenty feet below. Miraculously seven of the police cars stop in time. The eighth police car, however, smashes into the other police cars causing a chain reaction. The first police car is sent sliding down the dirt embankment into the river. EXT. MAIN ROAD - NIGHT Ray's truck drives quickly up the road. The sacks of bogus money come flying out the window. When the sacks hit the pavement they burst open. Cut rectangles of newspaper blow across the road. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Ray is really hauling ass. Frank is looking out the back window. FRANK
Ray is passing every car in their way. Several cars honk at them. RAY
Ray's visor drops in front of his face. He pushes it out of the way and it drops again. RAY
Suddenly the glove box door falls off. Ray notices this. RAY
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Ray pushes the button to wash the muddy windshield and solvent sprays out, then the windshield wipers go on and the driver's side wiper blade flies off, leaving two sharp pieces of metal scratching the glass. RAY
Ray drives off the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan. There are thousands of cars and people. Ray slows down and they are lost in the throng. INT. RAY'S TRUCK - NIGHT Frank turns to Ray. FRANK Ray looks in the rearview mirror and sees a police car behind them. RAY Ray looks all around, but there is nowhere to go. They are stuck in traffic. RAY Suddenly the police car's flasher and siren go on. Ray and Frank both begin to panic. The police car pulls up beside them. Ray begins to edge over to the curb. The police car continues past them and pulls over the car in front of them. Frank and Ray breathe a deep sigh of relief. |
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