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ARMORED CAR ROBBERY
By Kevin Hager

GENRE: Film-noir, Crime
LOGLINE:

A career criminal plans to rob an armored car and uses anti-police protestors to do it. 

SYNOPSIS:

ARMORED CAR ROBBERY

Dane Aldrich is a young career criminal, but his family and lawyer a known civil activist continue to rally to his defense on the grounds he is a victim of racial profiling, after he is released, he meets up with his old crew and returns to his old habits and plans to rob an armored car delivering money to the bank. Dane finds out his family, which includes his sister Tricia and brother-in-law James Daly will be attending a march/rally and ask him to help plan it. Dane sees an opportunity to rob the armored car using the march and agrees. On the day of the march Dane had arranged it, so the marchers will be in the same area as the armored car, then make a fake phone call to the police about an emergency and it when the cops arrive Dane’s crew robs the armored car and cause gunfire causing the protesters to think cops are firing on them especially when more arrive to stop the robbery. Dane’s plan was to use the protesters as a distraction to keep the cops busy and succeeds. Police Captain Davis Rowe shows the organizer Norman Lodge the civil activist who helps Tricia and James free Dane the situation and becomes suspicious of the timing and considers it too much of a coincidence. Another organizer Darryl Preston who also helped Dane’s freedom refuses to believe they were used, as does James and Tricia but when Tricia watches the video and looks at pictures of the incident, she begins to become suspicious due to the fact that Dane left early and confides in James. While they find nothing when they search the house, James makes a realization and finds some money at a Black Lives Matter building, and confirms Dane was behind the robbery and used them to do it. Norman and Darryl make statements claiming they did not know about the robbery and the cops begin searching for Dane. Meanwhile Dane’s mother has a heart attack and dies while Dane’s henchmen are found and arrested. Dane fearing the cops will be closing in on him tries to flee but is caught by Tricia who takes him at gunpoint to their old neighborhood, believe their mother died of a broken hear because of Dane she attempts to kill him having enough of his lies and actions but James arrives with the cops and talks her down Dane grabs her gun and tries to flee and shoots at the cops but is killed in self-defense while James consoles Tricia. Tricia comes to terms with her brother’s death and accepts it was his fault and tries to keep kids out of gang life.

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