PLOT : DEN OF THIEVES



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Los Angeles 2018, An armoured truck makes a stop at a coffee shop. Within moments, a team of robbers led by Ray Merrimen attacks and tries to break into the truck. The guards attempt to defend themselves and stand their ground, leading the robbers to kill them. Police officers arrive on the scene and engage in a shootout with the robbers, Eventually, Merrimen and his men make off with the empty armoured truck, but he reprimands Donnie for killing the first guard.

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In the morning, Detective Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien investigates the crime scene. He has been investigating Merrimen and his crew for a while, whereas Merrimen holds a grudge against Nick for killing one of his guys. Nick finds Donnie at the bar he works at and kidnaps him for interrogation. In a flashback, Merrimen is planning to rob the Federal Reserve on Friday of that week with the intention of taking roughly $300 million in old bills that will be deleted from Federal Reserve serial number records.
Merrimen has Donnie gain access into the Federal Reserve by having him get hired as a Chinese food delivery guy. In the ceiling of the bathroom, he stashes an extra bag of food and a delivery uniform for the day of the big heist. At home, Nick's wife, Debbie discovers that Nick has been going behind her back seeing other women, particularly strippers. Incensed, she leaves with their daughters and has her lawyer serve Nick divorce papers.

Nick spots Donnie at a restaurant with Merrimen and his crew, which makes them suspicious when Nick calls Donnie out. At their hideout, Merrimen has his right-hand man Levi hit Donnie and interrogate him to make sure he hasn't been talking to Nick about their plans. Donnie assures him that he hasnt told him anything about the robbery. Nick goes to a strip club and goes home with a stripper, unaware the stripper was hired by Merrimen to spy on him .

Later on, Levi's daughter has a date come over to pick her up for a school dance. Levi pulls the guy aside to introduce him to Merrimen and the rest of their crew to intimidate him and make sure he does nothing to hurt Levi's daughter. Meanwhile , Nick drunkenly crashes a small get-together at the home of Debbie's sister. He obnoxiously signs the divorce papers and gets belligerent with Debbie's new boyfriend, before he is told to leave. At his daughter's school, Nick makes a desperate unscheduled effort to see his daughter.

The day of the heist comes, Merrimen and his crew invade a commercial bank branch and take hostages. Nick's team is outside as the chaos unfolds. The LAPD Police Chief calls and speaks to the bank's branch manager on behalf of Merrimen. To prove they are serious, Merrimen has one of his guys take a hostage to a back room and shoot her. Merrimen tells the manager to tell the chief that they want their large sum of money and a chopper. The thieves them blow the vault open and escape through a hole in the floor before Nick's team come in. They also find that the hostage they supposedly shot is still alive but terrified. The thieves needed commercial bank cash, so they could do a cash drop-off at the federal reserve: the only way to get inside the federal reserve building.

Donnie is sneaked inside a cash dolly into the Federal Reserve building by Merrimen, to get the targeted cash : old bills that have been earmarked for shredding in order to cover their theft. And he stashes it in bags . After escaping the cash count-rooms through the air ducts, Donnie retrieves the uniform and bag of food from the bathroom ceiling. Appalled by the cold, old food, the unsuspecting Federal Reserve employee who orders Chinese food daily, tries to get security to stop him, but Donnie is gone. The cash will leave the Federal Reserve building in the same waste management truck that comes to pick up the bags of shredded bills. Nick's team catch up to Donnie and capture him, beating him until he tells them where Merrimen is going.

Merrimen and two other guys in the crew try to make their escape. They hit a traffic jam and are blocked. Nick's team spots them and attempts to shoot them as Merrimen and his guys try to escape. After warning other drivers, the police start to shoot as Merrimen and his guys try to escape. Levi and the other men are shot dead, but Merrimen keeps running. Nick chases after him and shoots him through a fence, wounding Merrimen. Nick hops the fence to catch him, but Merrimen refuses to go out quietly. Although he tries to fight back, Nick shoots Merrimen four times in the chest, As Merrimen lies on the floor dying, Nick kneels by him. He reminds Nick that he kept to his word. Merrimen peacefully dies. When Nick inspects Merrimen's van, he finds bags with shredded money. He also finds that Donnie has escaped custody.

Nick later goes to Donnie's bar and sees pictures of him with some of the crew members from the heist. Through flashbacks, it is revealed Donnie engineered the heist to get the heist to get the full amount of funds for himself. The realisation hits Nick.

Donnie is now in London working in another bar. His crew is nearby having drinks and enjoying the spoils of their victory. A man from a shop across the street comes in . Donnie serves him and asks if he works at the diamond shop. The man says yes, and Donnie gives the man a beer on the house.




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