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And in the circumstances I trust you will forgive me if I insist, insist,

you comply with the terms laid down in my letter of the 23rd in...

What the hell is the meaning of this? Can I ask you the same question?

I happen to be in the middle of dictating a letter. I don't care what

doing! Is this the sort of letter you send to a friend?

Will you excuse us a moment, my dear?

Now, look, George, I think I know what's upsetting you. You think you know?

Dear Mr... Dear Mr. Balsam.

Since when have I been Mr. Balsam to you?

Dear Mr. Balsam, unless you can settle in closed account on November 28th,

I shall feel compelled.

Do I have to go on?

Your best customer for 30 years.

Your friend for the last 40. But, George, you ignored my early letters and

phone calls. Well, dammit, man, I'm going through a difficult time.

The whole country. And I'm not.

What's a bill like this to a firm like yours?

It's a lot if it's multiplied 20 or 30 fold.

Just returned from the bank trying to negotiate a new loan.

I showed the manager how much I was owed, a six -figure sum, and he asked me

I was running a metal company or a bank, and more to the point, I didn't get the

loan.

I haven't even told this to my wife.

I'm on the brink of bankruptcy.

You may not believe this, George, but I came from that bank thinking if I had a

gun...

You were saying... If you had a gun... Oh, silly

thought, really.

But I would have been tempted to hold up that bank.

A plan even began to form in my mind how I'd go about it.

Don't you have a gun? A gun? Me?

What would I be doing with guns?

I've got a gun.

Matter of fact, I've got seven.

I used to collect them.

You're not being serious, are you?

The wedding's going. I've got nothing to lose.

What's your idea?

George, I'm a prison visitor.

Justice of the peace.

Who's about to go bankrupt.

We need an accomplice.

I could find one. With a fast car. Yeah, yeah, we'd have to steal one.

That's the dreadful thing, you see. One crime leads to another.

Eddie.

Do you mean business or that?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Stop waiting. Oh, bloody Tom.

We've got this bad back.

Well, not that her front's up to much, but she's learned to live with it. But

the back is agony.

And the only thing that helps is thick blobs of hot mud. So she has this man

there doing that and nothing else.

baking hot blocks of mud and slapping them with a trowel on her back. So, of

course, I had to take charge of everything else. And it was go, go, go

moment I came to the moment I left. And Keith isn't much help, as you know.

Besides, he's hardly ever there. And the Italians are hopeless.

Because apart from anything else, they don't speak English. So, of course, it

was go, go, go.

And bring your gun.

With any live ammunition, if you have it.

Couldn't stop thinking about it all day.

Me neither.

What on earth do you want a gun for at this time of night?

With live ammunition?

Just want to know what it feels like to handle a gun.

Can you see yourself shooting somebody?

Oh, yes.

Quite sure.

That bank manager is special.

Eddie, you need to let the idea run away with her.

I'm going to sleep.

I can't sleep.

I can't eat.

George.

Isn't there a way of robbing a bank when no one's there?

After all.

There must be hundreds of ways.

You could borrow in from underneath.

Or to a neighbouring shop next door.

But then we'd need to bring in someone to crack the safe.

Where are we going to find the cracks? I'd find them.

You'd find one? Never care.

I'm a prison visitor and a member of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society.

It's the safe I'm worried about.

But I told you, I've got a Master Craxman.

Failed Master Craxman.

He's done 12 years.

He had 20 good years before he was caught.

No, it's experience that counts.

That'll be him now.

Yes? Simupins is waiting, sir. Good. Show him in, Pidders, will you?

I shall never forget what you've done for me, Mr Boyle.

Both in prison and out of it.

Talking to you has made me a new man.

No, no, no.

Crime does not pay. Not in the long run. It's exactly what I told you. And how

right you was, Mr Boyle. And how sad that it took me so long to realise how

right you was.

I mean, I can't even blame my upbringing.

My father was an honest man. My mother was an honest woman.

And I broke their hearts.

Well, there you are.

It's never too late to mend.

Cheers. Oh, cheers.

What are you doing now?

Social science.

At the Open University.

Oh, so you're going to be a social worker?

Well, I feel that I have committed so many crimes against society, I must make

amends.

Mr Boyle, you see before you an honest Christian.

A reformed man.

You haven't by any chance kept in touch with your former colleagues?

You mean cracksmen and bank robbers and the like? Oh, no, no, no.

You'll never get me consorting with criminals ever again.

Anyway, they'd only lead me back into the bad habits again.

How'd you like to earn 30 grand?

30 grand. Could be 100 grand.

Could be 200 grand.

Doing what?

Robbing a bank.

Doing what?

Robbing a bank.

But what do you two know about robbing banks?

Nothing.

But we're willing to learn.

Yes, well, I think I'll... I'll be on my...

Is this it?

Yes. Take me to the place.

This is the bank. This is the shop.

Very quiet in the evening, very little traffic. We should be able to make our

getaway without any difficulty.

You're making a getaway already?

I haven't even got in yet.

Yes.

Yes, it's possible.

There's no visible alarm system that we'll see.

All right, let's have a look round the back.

Ah!

He's very agile for his age, isn't he? He's been out of practice 12 years and

he's got bad feet.

Ideal.

Hi, dear.

Do you know this place could have been designed with a bank robbery plan?

Isn't that a bit dangerous?

I can't see without lights.

Yes, but if people outside see the lights, won't they call the police?

First of all, Mr Boyle, you will notice that there are blinds at the window.

Yes, but there's chinks in the blinds. And second of all, Mr Boyle, you have to

have nerves for this job.

How much do you reckon will be in that bank?

Oh, main branch, provincial town, slack time of the year, of course.

Three quarters of a million, if we're lucky.

That's 250 ,000 apiece.

We need a driver with a fast getaway car, and he'll need to be paid in

How much?

Well, you start off by asking.

Ten, but I shall beat him down to five.

Five?

What do you think?

I'll find the money.

You couldn't find the 5 ,000 gold, me.

Oh, come on, Eddie, this is different. This is a chance of a lifetime.

Now what's he up to?

Here, as I thought, reinforced concrete.

Well, that's it.

But it's all over.

What do you mean?

That's imperishable, that is.

Nothing is impenetrable if you use enough dynamite. Dynamite?

Well, I'm afraid that would be a bit too noisy.

No, no, no. This will be a down -and -under job.

Here.

We shall need a long weekend and a Monday.

Why a Monday?

Because there's no money in the bank over the weekend.

They don't stock up until Monday.

And that's when we'll surface after the cleaners have gone.

pussy. You know, I think it would be a good idea if we started tomorrow night.

Oh, no, we can't.

No, I've got a trade dinner tomorrow night.

Got to give it a miss. Well, how can I?

I'm in the chair.

All right, all right. We make it Friday. Now, you, Mr. Boyle, will be

responsible for food and drink for four days. You, Mr. Burslem.

Burslem. Make a note of the following.

Spades, shovels, props, helmets, block and tackle, and, uh... Hoxie settling

equipment.

How are things going up there?

Well, to be honest, I'm finding it quite difficult to keep up.

We should be coming up for air soon.

Good.

Shall I make the tea, then?

No milk for me.

This is bloody ironic.

My old man, he was a miner.

I'll never forget him saying to me, whatever happens, son, I shall see you

go underground.

Silly idiot.

Oh, my God.

It's all right. He's gone.

Now, I've told you before, you shouldn't be doing this job if you haven't got

the nerve, Boyle. Now, don't you stop me.

I've done all I've got to take from you.

You've gone on and on. We have another 49 hours to go. We start falling now,

we're never going to get it finished.

It isn't like you, Eddie.

It isn't like you.

Just remember, I've forgotten my Indra. Your what?

Indra.

It's from my heart.

Ouch.

Are you trying to tell me that you have a heart condition? This is no employment

for people with heart conditions. I didn't have one before I started this.

Doctor only prescribed the tablets yesterday.

What happens if you don't take them? I don't know.

I don't know, George.

I suppose I could drop them. Well, they would rather complicate matters.

On the other hand, these are ideal circumstances for a burial. You!

You runt!

You didn't mean it, Eddie.

We wouldn't leave you, Eddie.

We wouldn't leave you.

Even if you did.

You sold your arm, see, Eddie? You sold your arm.

How's it going?

Huh? I said, how's it going down there?

Better without a musical accompaniment.

Do we really need four days for this job?

We've been buried alive.

Yes. The joy of this work is to talk that off from the outside world.

There's no better way of getting away from it all.

Hold it.

That's an old mill by the stream.

May I say, Mr. Meakin, that that is a very long tunnel for such a short

distance. What I'm afraid of is that we're going to surface right in the

of the road.

Just leave things to me, please, Mr. Burson.

Folsom, sir. If you ask me, was that rather too much to you?

Oh, is that so?

Well, in that case, you can finish this job yourself. All right, we will.

We will. For anyone to think of falling out. Now, we have come so far. Look at

us. Muddy, stinking, burying our way through the earth like moulds.

My wife wouldn't recognise me. She might consider it an improvement.

How will we ever get clean?

There isn't a shower in this place. There isn't a bath. Not a bath!

Listen, Boyle. When this is finished, you will be taken hence.

And if necessary, thence to a Turkish bath where you can come out.

smelling like a lily of the valley, if you so wish. But in the meantime, will

you please shut your mouth and stop moaning? I'm not going to be addressed

you in that manner.

All right.

All right. You can have my shirt. I'm getting out of here.

Shut up!

God, if it isn't Larry.

I thought you'd retired years ago.

So I have, so I have.

But I've taken up a bit of antique collecting.

I happen to notice a fine piece of delft in the window.

You know the prices they charge these days?

It's robbery.

If it comes to that, I thought you'd retired.

Get out! Come on, you!

You know I like to keep my hand in.

Is there anything I can do seeing as I'm here?

Oh, no, no, no.

You're much too old for this, Heaney.

Oh, you're not in the first plus a youth yourself.

You'd be surprised what I can do.

The only thing is I've got my best clothes on.

Well, I can take them off.

A ticket is not expecting a full share of the proceeds.

I'll be happy with a few thousand.

All right, so I've cut the bloody cable.

We all make mistakes.

Throw some tape and gloves down, I'll fix it in a jiffy.

And if you could manage to electrocute yourself whilst you're at it, you'll be

doing us a great favour.

Well, I can't understand this. How did he manage to cut through the cable

without electrocuting himself in the first place? Oh, that would be asking

much. I let him blow a safe once, you know.

And so I got these bad feet.

Aren't you frightened he's going to cut right through the water, mate?

Hey, well done, Edison.

Well done.

What did I tell you?

Why don't we send him home? Because he'd be picked up by the police.

Now get to it, boy.

It's nearly daylight.

All right, now let me have him to prop.

My board.

Right, folk.

You can ease off now.

It's done.

Good.

Hey, I think that's cause for a cup of tea.

Wait a minute.

The bank's closed at half past three. I mean, why do we have to wait so long?

It's the cleaners. They don't finish until ten.

That's when we'll move.

Take us about an hour to get through that floor.

And five minutes for me to open the safe.

I heard World War could have started while we've been in here.

Checkmate.

Can't wait to get home.

See my house.

My dog.

I bet she hasn't even bothered to take him for a walk.

Poor old Cedric.

Who said we? Sit down. It's Cedric. Homeboy. Cedric. Homeboy.

What good will that do? Keep him off the set.

I feel like a Christmas pudding.

Cedric!

We were nearly done for, Boyle.

Why is it so quiet?

What?

That's the cleaners. They're on their way. Right.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Look, what's all this about a new generation of safes? This'll be as easy

pushing open a swing door.

Take me about five minutes.

It's an old casing, but if you ask me, it's a new sort of lock.

Do you wish to time me?

Wait a minute.

Where's Eddie?

I'll be out.

A bit shaky.

I suppose it was the excitement.

Hey, you all right?

I'll kill you. I'll kill you.

What if the alarm goes off?

He knows what he's doing.

I doubt it.

I told you so.

Shut up, Eddie.

Open sesame.

I don't believe it.

Maybe they've moved the money already.

Not on a Monday. Not after one day's business.