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Beat | Acts | Beat Description | Storylines |
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Introduce all the teams and their goals. |
At Harry’s card table, Eddy explains how to play the card game, Three Card Brag. | Eddy |
2 | On a street corner, Bacon sells stolen goods. Eddy buys some goods as part of the two-man con. They both get chased by the cops and lose their merchandise fleeing. | Bacon Eddy |
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3 | In a grocer’s market, Eddy meets Tom and Nick. Tom and Nick haggle over a stolen stereo. Introduce Tom (Team 1) |
Eddy Tom Nick |
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4 | In Soap’s kitchen, Tom and Eddy meet Soap. Soap gives Eddy a bag with $25k in it. | Tom Eddy Soap |
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5 | In Harry’s office, Harry sits behind his desk talking to Eddy on the phone. Eddy confirms he has the money to join Harry’s illegal card game. | Harry (Eddy ) Barry |
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6 | In Harry’s office, Barry tells Harry that Eddy is good enough at cards to be a liability. Include a voice over introduction of Barry. Barry tells Harry that Eddy’s dad (JD) owns a bar. | Harry Barry Eddy |
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7 | In a warehouse, Dog tortures a man and steals his drugs and money. | Dog Dog’s victim |
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8 | In Eddy’s living room, Eddy, Bacon, Tom and Soap consolidate their money to join Harry’s card game. Eddy mentions that Dog lives next door and is a thief. Bacon discovers you can hear what’s going on in Tom’s apartment by listening through the wall. | Eddy Bacon Tom Soap (Harry ) (Dog ) |
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9 | In Eddy’s living room Tom hears Dog and Plank discuss how they need to find a (thieving) job “worth doing” while Tom and Bacon eavesdrop. | Tom Dog Plank |
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10 | At a tanning salon, Big Chris and Little Chris collect on a debt for Harry. | Big Chris Little Chris Big Chris’s victim |
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11 | In JD’s bar, Tom, Eddy, Soap and Bacon chit chat with JD. Soap tells JD to rest up for the card game. | JD Eddy Tom Soap Bacon |
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12 | In the upstairs of the grow house, Jay and Charles smoke weed and talk about their weed growing operation. Their conversation is cut short when the doorbell rings downstairs. | Jay Charles (Winston ) (Gloria ) |
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13 | In foyer of the grow house, Jay and Charles meet Willy at the door, who is carrying a bag of fertilizer. A semi-conscious hippy female named, Gloria is hanging on his other arm. Winston comes downstairs and chides Jay and Charles for not locking the security gate (a cage around the front door), and he chides Winston for walking to a suburban drug lab carrying a bag of fertilizer and a semi-conscious Gloria, when he was supposed to be out buying a money counter to count all the money they make selling weed. | Jay Charles Winston Gloria |
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14 | In JD’s bar, JD overhears Tom talking to Eddy about his card game with Harry. JD asks if he’s playing cards with Harry, and Eddy lies to his father. | JD Eddy Tom Soap Bacon (Harry ) |
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15 | In his bedroom, Eddy prepares for the card game by getting dressed and meditating. | Eddy | |
16 | In a seedy strip club, Gary and Dean meet Barry, who hires them to steal two shot guns from a rich man’s house. | Gary Dean Barry (Rich man ) |
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17 | Eddy, Tom, Soap and Bacon approach the door to a boxing gym. The doorman only lets Eddy in. He tells the others to wait next door at a pub called “Samoan Jo’s.” | Eddy Tom Soap Bacon Doorman |
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18 |
2
Team 4 robs a mansion as Team 1 loses a card game against Team 2. |
Inside the boxing gym, Eddy sits at a card table in the middle of the boxing ring and exchanges introductions with Harry. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
19 | As Soap, Tom and Bacon approach Samoan Jo’s, a man runs out the door. He is on fire. | Tom Soap Bacon (Rory’s victim ) |
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20 | Gary and Dean arrive at the mansion where Barry said the shotguns he wanted are at. They proceed to pick the lock to the door. | Gary Dean |
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21 | Bacon, Soap and Tom hang out at Samoan Jo’s. Bacon orders a fruity cocktail he isn’t happy with. Sitting next to them is Rory, watching a football match on TV. The bartender warns them to leave Rory alone. Bacon asks Rory if he’ll turn the volume down, and Rory refuses calmly. | Tom Soap Bacon Samoan Joe Rory |
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22 | In Harry’s boxing gym, the big card game gets started. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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23 | Barry sets up a TV monitor in a locker room. The TV is hooked up to a hidden camera that allows him to see Eddy’s cards. | Barry Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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24 | In Harry’s boxing gym, the card game continues. One of the players loses all his money and is thrown out. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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25 | In the mansion, Gary and Dean fumble about wearing stockings on their heads. | Dean Gary |
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26 | In Harry’s boxing gym, the card game continues. Eddy is winning a lot. Other players are signing IOUs. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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27 | In the mansion, Gary and Dean are attacked by a butler shooting at them with the shotguns they’re looking for. He misses, and Gary and Dean get the shotguns. | Dean Gary Rich man |
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28 | In Harry’s boxing gym, Eddy continues winning. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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29 | Dean calls Barry and tells him they’ve got the guns. | Dean Gary Barry |
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30 | In Harry’s boxing gym, Eddy and Harry bet $500k on one hand. Eddy borrows the money from Harry to cover the bet. Harry wins. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers |
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31 | Harry tells Eddy he has a week to pay the $500k back. After that he’ll take off a finger each day the debt isn’t paid. Harry offers to accept JD’s bar as partial payment. Ed stumbles outside and vomits. | Eddy Harry Dealer Gamblers (JD ) (Tom ) (Soap ) (Bacon ) |
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32 |
3
Team 6 plans to rob Team 3. Team 1 plans to pay back Harry and sell the loot to Team 5. Team 2 plans to rob Team 1. |
At Samoan Jo’s, Eddy gives the bad news to his friends. Soap asks why they don’t just not pay, and everyone looks at him like he’s crazy. Bacon explains how Harry once beat a man to death with a dildo. | Eddy Tom Soap Bacon (Harry ) |
33 | Two days later, Eddy walks past JD’s bar. Eddy looks ragged and has a flask in his pocket. He starts to enter the bar but walks on. | Eddy JD |
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34 | Plank arrives at the grow house to buy weed from Jay Winston and Charles. He almost sits on Gloria and knocks over a pile of money. Plank tries to act nonchalant, but we can see greed in his eyes. | Plank Will Winston Charles |
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35 | In JD’s bar, Tom, Bacon and Soap brainstorm ineffective ways to pay off Harry. They commiserate that Eddy is going to have to tell JD he’s going to lose his bar. | Tom Bacon Soap Ed (JD) |
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36 | In Dog’s apartment, Plank tells Dog about how easy it would be to rob Team 3. | Plank Dog (Winston’s team) |
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37 | Ed enters his house drunk and dazed. He opens the cupboard and can hear Dog and Plank planning on robbing Team 3. | Ed Dog Plank |
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38 | In JD’s bar, Soap and Bacon brainstorm more ideas to pay off Harry with no luck. | Soap Bacon Tom |
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39 | In Dog’s apartment, Dog tries to poke holes in Plank’s plan to rob Team 3. Dog insists Team 3 must be working with someone with muscle and/or intelligence. Plank refutes this notion and insists Team 3 is a bunch of push overs, and no blowback will come from robbing them. | Dog Plank (Jays’ team) |
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40 | In Harry’s office, Barry expresses doubt that Big Chris will bring back the $500k if he collects it from Team 1. Harry defends Big Chris saying he’s a natural born debt collector, loyal to his boss. Big Chris’s only flaw is he has anger issues and would murder anyone who harms Little Chris. | Barry Harry (Big Chris) (Little Chris) (Eddys’ team) |
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41 | Big Chris and Little Chris arrive at Harry’s office. Harry tells them to put all other debt collections to the side and focus on getting the $500k from Team 1. | Big Chris Little Chris Harry Barry (Eddy’s team) |
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42 | At Eddy’s house, Eddy tells Tom, Bacon and Soap he has a plan to get the money they owe Harry. | Eddy Tom Bacon Soap (Dog’s team) |
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43 | In the grow house, Jay suggests to Winston that they can skim off the top of the money they’re making for Rory. Winston warns Jay that Rory is a lunatic and will gruesomely kill them if he suspects they’re stealing from him. | Jay Winston (Rory) |
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44 | In Eddy’s house, Eddy have finished explaining his plan to Tom, Bacon and Soap. They pay back Harry when they return from robbing Team 3. Soap offers reasons why they shouldn’t, but the consensus is they don’t have any other options. | Eddy Tom Bacon Soap (Dog’s team) |
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45 | In JD’s bar, Tom makes a deal with Nick. Nick will make some money if he finds a buyer for the weed Team 1 is going to steal from Team 6. | Tom Nick (Rory) |
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46 | In Rory’s office, Rory tells Nick that Team 5 will buy Team 1’s weed when they have it. | Rory Nick (Eddy’s team) |
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47 |
4
Each team prepares to enact their plans. |
Gary and Dean meet with Barry and give him the guns they stole from the mansion, but Gary tells Barry they sold the shotguns Barry wanted to Nick. Barry threatens them and tells them to get the shotguns back immediately. | Gary Dean Barry (Nick) |
48 | At Team 1’s van, Nick gives the two shotguns Barry wants to Team 1, who accept the shotguns ruefully. Nick also confirms that Rory is standing by to buy their weed. | Nick Eddy Tom Bacon Soap (Rory) |
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49 | In JD’s bar, Big Chris informs JD that if he doesn’t give Harry his bar, Eddy will die. JD tells Chris to go fuck himself. | Big Chris Little Chris JD (Harry) (Eddy’s team) |
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50 | In Eddy’s apartment, Bacon has set up a lot of microphones and recording equipment in the cupboard to listen to Dog and Plank’s conversations. | Bacon Eddy Tom Soap (Dog’s team) |
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51 | In Dog’s apartment, Plank assures Dog that their robbery will be easy. Dog insists it won’t be easy. | Dog Plank (Winston’s team) |
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52 | In Eddy’s apartment, crackling noises start coming from the electric socket that Bacon has all the recording equipment plugged into. There’s a loud pop, and then the power in the building goes off. | Bacon Eddy Tom Soap (Dog’s team) |
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53 | In Dog’s apartment, Dog hears the pop from next door and wonders what his neighbor is doing. Then Dog states the plan to rob Team 3. | Dog Plank (Eddy’s team) (Winston’s team) |
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54 | In Eddy’s apartment, by candle light, Bacon tells Team 1 the plans of Team 6. Then Soap complains they don’t have enough guns and suggests they all carry knives. | Bacon Eddy Tom Soap (Dog’s team) |
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55 |
5
Team 6 robs Team 3. |
In Eddy’s apartment, Team 1 watches Team 6 leave to go rob Team 3. | Bacon Eddy Tom Soap (Dog’s team) |
56 | In the grow house, Team 3 are on edge and in a hurry to deliver the profits of their weed operation to Rory. Winston mentions that the security cage is locked. | Jay Winston Charles Gloria (Rory) |
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57 | At the front door to the grow house, Plank tries to talk Jay into letting him in, but Jay won’t let him. Plank says it’s in his best interest. | Plank Jay |
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58 | Jay goes upstairs and asks Winston if Plank can come in. Winston refuses. | Jay | |
59 | Meanwhile, outside, Team 6 gets anxious waiting. | Plank Dog Goons |
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60 | Jay returns downstairs and lets Plank through the front door into the security cage. Plank grabs him through the bars, points a gun at him and orders him to open the gate, but Jay passes out in fear. | Jay Plank |
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61 | The rest of Team 6 runs into the security cage not knowing it’s locked and they can’t go any further. | Jay Plank Dog Goons |
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62 | Upstairs in the grow house, Winston realizes they’re being robbed and tells Charles to get the BB gun. | Winston Charles (Dog’s team) |
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63 | From the top of the stairs in the grow house, Charles shoots Team 6 with the BB gun until they shoot Jay’s toes off and threaten to kill him if they don’t open the security gate. | Charles Jay Plank Dog Goons |
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64 | Upstairs in the grow house, Winston and Charles debate their choices and decide to surrender. | Winston Charles (Dog’s team) |
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65 | Winston lets Team 6 through the security cage. Dog asks where Charles is, and Winston lies that Charles has run away. | Winston Dog Plank Goons (Charles) |
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66 | Upstairs in the grow house, Dog asks Winston where their money is. Winston tells them. Then Dog goes to look for it. | Dog Plank Goons Winston |
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67 | Charles jumps out of a closet and attacks Dog with a knife, but Dog makes Charles surrender at gunpoint. | Charles Plank Dog Goons Winston |
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68 | As Plank is taking bags of weed out to the van, a parking warden approaches him and orders him to move the van. Plank protests, but the traffic warden is relentless. Plank knocks the traffic warden unconscious and throws him in the back of the van. | Plank Warden |
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69 | Gloria wakes up, grabs Dog’s machine gun and shoots it wildly. She misses everything. Then Dog knocks her out, and Plank and Dog leave. | Gloria Charles Winston Dog Plank Goons |
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70 | Outside Eddy’s apartment, Team 1 gets in position to attack Team 6. | Eddy Bacon Tom Soap (Dog’s team) |
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71 | In Team 6’s van, Dog asks why there is a traffic warden with them. Plank says the traffic warden was endangering their mission. Dog says they’ll deal with him later. | Dog Plank Warden Goons |
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72 |
6
Team 1 robs Team 6 and sells the loot to Team 5, who then plans to kill Team 1. Team 6 discovers it was Team 1 who robbed them. |
Team 6 arrives at Dog’s apartment. Team 1 attacks and subdues Team 6 easily. | Dog’s team Eddy’s team (Warden) |
73 | In Dog’s apartment, wearing a disguise, Eddy takes Dog’s keys to the van, and Dog threatens to find and kill Eddy. | Eddie Dog Plank Goons |
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74 | Team 1 gets in Team 6’s van and takes stock of their loot. They find the traffic warden and make a plan to dump him at a traffic light. | Eddy Bacon Tom Soap Warden |
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75 | In Harry’s office, Harry tells Big Chris to pay a visit to Team 1. | Harry Big Chris (Eddy’s team) |
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76 | In Dog’s apartment, Dog escapes his restraints and rants about how he’s going to find and kill Team 1. | Dog Plank Goons (Eddy’s team) |
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77 | Team 1 transfers their loot from the old van to a new one. They make a plan to take the weed back to Eddy’s apartment, and Eddy tells Tom to take a sample to Nick. | Eddy Bacon Tom Soap (Rory) |
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78 | In Rory’s office, Rory tells Nick he’ll buy the weed for half what he originally offered. Then he tells Lenny, his assistant, to give the weed sample to Team 3 for their opinion of its quality. | Rory Nick Lenny (Eddy’s team) (Winston’s team) |
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79 | Lenny pulls up to the grow house and notices something’s wrong. | Lenny (Winston’s team) |
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80 | Lenny enters the grow house cautiously and finds Team 3 tied up. | Lenny Winston’s team |
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81 | In Eddy’s apartment, Team 1 takes stock of their loot again and counts out the cash they owe Harry. | Eddy’s team (Harry) |
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82 | In Rory’s office, Rory interrogates Team 3 and comes to the conclusion that Nick is related to the robbery. He tells Lenny to bring Nick to him. | Rory Winston’s team (Nick) (Dog’s team) (Eddy’s team) |
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83 | In Dog’s apartment, Dog comes up with a plan to find who attacked them. They’ll start by searching the apartment for listening devices and then start torturing known thieves. | Dog Plank Goons (Eddy’s team) |
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84 | In JD’s bar, Team 1 is drinking. They ask JD’s bartender if he knows Rory. JD’s bartender relates the story of how Rory lit a man on fire in Samoan Jo’s for trying to turn down the volume on a football match Rory was watching. | Eddy’s team Bartender (Rory) (Rory’s victim) |
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85 | In Rory’s office, Rory threatens to kill Nick if he doesn’t tell him where Team 1 lives. | Rory Nick (Eddy’s team) |
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86 | In Dog’s apartment, Dog yells at Plank for failing to find who robbed them. In a fit of rage, he throws Plank into the wall. Plank’s head breaks through into Eddy’s apartment where he sees all of Bacon’s recording devices. | Dog Plank Goons (Eddy’s team) |
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7
Team 2, 4, 5 and 6 converge on Team 1’s base. Team 5 and 6 kill each other. Team 2 takes the loot and is followed by Team 4 and the leader of Team 6. |
In JD’s bar, Team 1 recovers from a night of drinking and plan to pay Harry. | Eddy’s team (Harry) |
88 | Dean calls Nick and asks to buy their shotguns back. Nick tells them he’ll never see the shotguns or the people he sold them to again. | Dean Gary Nick (Eddy’s team) |
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89 | Dean calls Barry and tells him they can’t get the shotguns back. Barry tells Dean the shotguns belong to Harry. Then Harry takes the phone and threatens to kill Dean if he doesn’t get the shotguns. After Harry hangs up, Dean calls Nick and demands to know where he can find the shotguns. | Dean Gary Barry Nick (Eddy’s team) |
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90 | In Eddy’s apartment, Dog, Plank and Team 6 henchmen take stock of their loot and prepare to kill Team 1 when they return. Dog takes the money and shotguns into a back room to count the money. | Dog Plank Goons (Eddy’s team) |
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91 | Rory and Team 5 henchmen prepare to kill everyone in Eddy’s apartment, and Team 6 prepares to kill anyone entering Eddy’s apartment. Big Chris and Little Chris sit outside Eddy’s apartment also waiting for Eddy’s return. | Rory Henchmen Dog’s team Big Chris Little Chris |
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92 | Team 6 busts into Eddy’s apartment, and there is an apocalyptic gun fight. | Rory Henchmen Dog’s team |
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93 | In Eddy’s bedroom, Dog hears the gun fight and prepares to escape with the money and shotguns. | Dog (Rory) (Henchmen) (Dog’s team) |
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94 | Outside Eddy’s apartment, Big Chris meets Dog running away with the money and shotguns. Big Chris knocks out Dog and takes all his loot. Dean and Gary arrive on the scene in time to see Big Chris get in his car with the shotguns. Dean tells Chris to follow Big Chris’s car. | Big Chris Little Chris Dog Dean Gary |
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95 | In Eddy’s apartment, Rory loads his weed into his van. He kicks over Planks bloody body and is about to shoot him, when Plank raises a loaded gun. Plank and Rory then kill each other simultaneously. | Rory Plank Goons Henchmen |
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96 |
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Team 2 summons Team 1 to their base. Team 4 and Team 2 kill each other. Team 1 takes the loot. The leader of Team 6 attacks Team 2 but is killed, and Team 2 takes the loot. |
Team 1 arrives at Eddy’s apartment to find their weed and money has been swapped for a pile of corpses. They leave in a panic. | Eddy’s team Rory Plank Goons Henchmen |
97 | Big Chris arrives at Harry’s office. He gives Harry the guns and money believing he simply collected on Team 1’s debt, not knowing Dog wasn’t a member of Team 1. | Big Chris Harry Barry (Dog) (Eddy’s team) |
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98 | Outside Harry’s office, Dean and Gary see Big Chris leave without the guns. They worry that they don’t know who’s inside, but they decide to get the guns back by any means necessary so as not to incur the wrath of Harry. | Dean Gary Big Chris (Harry) |
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99 | In JD’s bar, Eddy calls Harry, who tells Eddy his debt has been paid, but he wants to know where Team 1 got the shotguns. Harry tells Eddy to come to his office. After Harry hangs up, Team 1 debates whether Eddy should go. | Eddy (Harry) Eddy’s team |
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100 | At Harry’s office, Dean kicks the door in. Harry and Dean simultaneously shoot each other. Then Gary runs in and continues shooting Harry. Barry throws a Harry into Gary’s back. Gary turns around and shoots Barry dead before dying himself. | Dean Harry Gary Barry |
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101 | Tom and Eddy enter Harry’s office and find the pile of corpses. Eddy takes the money, and Tom takes the shotguns. | Tom Eddy |
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102 | Outside Harry’s office, Big Chris gets in his car to discover Dog is in the backseat with a knife to Little Chris’s throat. Dog tells Big Chris to get the money he took. Big Chris then drives his car full speed into the back of another, sending Dog flying into the windshield. | Big Chris Dog Little Chris (Eddy) (Tom) |
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103 | Eddy and Tom sit in their car assessing their situation. They decide everything is going to be okay, until Big Chris slams his car into the back of theirs. | Eddy Tom (Big Chris) (Little Chris) (Dog) |
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104 | Big Chris slams Dog’s head in the car door murderously. He then goes to check on the occupants of the car he hit. He sees the bag of money he just gave Harry and takes it. | Big Chris Dog Little Chris (Eddy’s team) |
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9
Denouement |
In a police station, Eddy is interrogated. Eddy plays stupid. On the other side of a two way mirror, the traffic warden says he doesn’t recognize Eddy as one of the people who kidnapped him. | Eddy Police Warden |
106 | In JD’s bar, Eddy tells the rest of Team 1 that the traffic warden identified Plank at the morgue. There’s no evidence against Team 1. So there’s no case against them. The only evidence linking them is the shotguns, which Tom is taking care of. | Eddy Soap Bacon (Police) (Warden) (Plank) (Tom) |
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107 | Big Chris enters JD’s bar and gives Team 1 the money bag and tells them they won’t be crossing paths any more. | Big Chris Eddy Soap Bacon |
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108 | Outside JD’s bar, Big Chris gets in a new sports car and tells Little Chris they’re in the money loaning business now. | Big Chris Little Chris |
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109 | Inside JD’s bar, Team 1 looks in the bag and find a gun collector’s magazine that says the shotguns Tom is in the process of throwing into a river are worth $250k. | Eddy Bacon Soap (Tom) |
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110 | As Tom is in the process of throwing the shotguns off a bridge, Team 1 tries to call him. The movie ends before he can answer the phone or throw the guns in the river. | Tom (Eddy) (Bacon) (Soap) |
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