Blog #7

Opening Scene:

Rushing along the beach, on the edge of the waves from the ocean as they gently run up and down the smooth, wet sand.  Night is falling over the landscape and the moon gives enough light for the night loving people to come out.  Flashing to several different buildings and structures where signs are being put up saying that the stores are closing for the day.  The last flash is a bank.  We move beneath the bank to the vault where they are going through the process of stashing away the days deposits and earnings in the main vault area.  A man with keys and a sidearm on his belt is walking down a hall way pushing a small metal box on wheels that has several locks and a chain link with a handcuff on the end of it which is clasped around the mans wrist.  He comes to the vault door where there are two men waiting to open the vault door for him.  First they both remove keys from their belts.  They insert the keys into key holes next to hand scanners on the wall.  Then, simultaneously they turn the keys and place their hands on the scanners.  The scanners read their hands and approve of their prints.  From here they will then punch in a 9 digit code into a small key pad on the vault door.  Inside the vault door, metal beams begin to slide and separate from the slots in the wall.  The man with the cart steps inside and places the cart directly in the middle of the vaults chamber.  He removes the keys from his belt and locks each of the wheels into place on metal clasps that come up from the floor.  He exits the chamber and and the vault closes behind him as he exits.  Movie Title and end of credits.

The Set Up:

The sun rises over the crashing waves of the ocean, the boardwalk begins to flood with people and the pier comes alive with commerce and human interaction.  Lawrence is seen walking down the boardwalk in a gray suit and carrying his hat in his hand.  He stops to look at something a vendor has out on display.  Small children playing with sticks pretending to be pirates attempt to hold him up and ask for his loot.  He reveals two peppermint paddies, surprising them for actually having gotten something, sending them on their way and continuing his on to his destination for the day.  Off of South Weston Street there is a small coffee shop that serves lunch and bakery items, as well as coffee.  He takes a seat at the counter on one of the bar stools and orders his favorite drink, a machiatto with whipped cream, cinnamon and chocolate shavings.  Not long after that he is visited by a very dark Jamaican man who whispers something in his ear.  He moves from his stool, bringing his coffee with him, following the man into a storage room with crates of coffee beans stacked all the way up to the ceiling on one wall of the room.  The Jamaican man leaves and the crates move inward and slide open to a hidden room.  He steps inside and is greeted by a fat Russian man named Vladmir Gruvcanski, the "Don" if you will.

The Inciting Incident:

The master plan involved 5 men to carry out specific and important jobs in order successfully rob the bank.  Each man had a unique skill which gave the team the greatest advantages over the bank and law enforcement.  Mr. Blue is the one who is skilled with suppressed explosives and safes.  He is also one of the gunman who was responsible for holding up the bank.  Mr. Pink and Mr. Brown were simply there to be gunman as well but he was responsible for cutting the wires to the silent alarm and removing any security camera equipment and recording devices.  Next there was the driver, Mr. Green.  He was responsible for finding some sweet wheels to make the escape in.  Lastly there was Mr. White, the brains of the job.  Lawrence was using Mr. White as his codename.  He was the one who was going to be retrieving the money from the vault as well as the the South African diamonds that were being stored in a security box in the main vault chamber underneath the bank.  Unbeknownst to the other robbers, Mr. White had already arranged for the vault to be emptied the night prior to the robbery.  He used various tools and equipment, some of it hand made, to dig beneath the bank after hours and emptied the vault of all cash and precious gems of any kind. 

The Rising Action:

Mr. Pink gets away from the police after having shot three officers and one civilian.  In a stolen car he makes his escape to safety with one of the safe deposit bags from the bank.  Unfortunately for him, the safe deposit bags only carry a maximum of $5,000 cash and today the only safe deposit that was made was around $3,278.  Mr. Pink vows his revenge on finding Mr. White and making him pay for screwing over everyone else on the job.  Mr. Pink has connections with people who are more than willing to get their hands dirty for a friend, if the price is right.  The thugs arrive and surround a compound where Lawrence is holding up with a group of his trusted associates from the Russian Mob. 

The Big Decision:

Lawrence is confronted with some extremely upsetting news when he meets with Vladmir Gruvcanksi.  Vlad explains to Lawrence that Mr. Pink had come to him the day before and plans to kill him and take the money that he worked to get.  Mr. Pink also told Vlad to give Lawrence a warning; He knows his real name as well as the names of Mr. Blue and Mr. Green and he was going to kill all of them one by one in order to get revenge for having lost everything because of them.  It is at this point that Lawrence knows exactly what it is that he must do.