Stop or I’ll shoot!

And I’m really not the type of girl

who likes getting old
No!
in the cell of a prison.
"My name’s Tokyo.
I prefer running away.
But when this story started,
that wasn’t my name. Body and soul.

This was me. And if I can’t take my body there,

SUSPECT'S WHEREABOUTS at least let my soul escape."

UNKNOWN
"I had no time left and there were
And this, the love of my life. important things I had to do.

ROBBER GETS SHOT DEAD Just one, really."

The last time I saw him Hello?

I left him in a pool of blood
"Mum?"
with his eyes open.
Oh, my girl.
We did 15 clean robberies,
"How are you, sweetheart?"
but mixing love and work never works.
What’s happening?
So, when the security guard shot,
"Haven’t you seen the news?"
I had to change my job.
All those things they say about me.
From robber to murderer.
Yes, of course I’ve seen them.
And that’s how I started to run away.
You know what?
Somehow, I was dead too.
I’m thinking about going on a journey.
Or almost dead.
"I may join a Chinese ship.
I had been hidden for 11 days
As a cook.
and my photo wallpapered
police stations all over Spain. Didn’t you say
I couldn’t even make an omelette?
I’d get a 30 years’ sentence.
So I’ll learn. What do you think?"

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I don’t know, sweetheart. No.

What if they only eat Chinese food? Cooking in a Chinese ship

only has one advantage,
What does that journey mean,
you don’t have to do the washing-up.
"that I won’t see you again?"
"For a moment I thought about the
Don’t talk nonsense.
Chinese
Of course you’ll see me.
and that I hate people who spit."
"I’ll buy you a ticket
-Who are you, a policeman?
so you come to visit me."
-Wait, wait.
Visit you where?
You’re going to the slaughterhouse,
At the cemetery? there’s a squad waiting for you

Are you alone? and they have a car since six days

"Mum, are you alone?" ago...

Yes. Why would I believe you?

"Then go to the street, "And that’s how I met the Professor,

as if you went to the market. pointing a gun to his balls."

I’ll find you." May I?

"And that day, "The good thing about relationships

the day I was going to the
is that you finally forget
slaughterhouse,
how they started."
my guardian angel appeared.
May I?
But you never know for certain
They’re already in your mother’s
what a guardian angel looks like,
house.
and you’d never imagine
That’s why I came to help you.
he’d appear in a Seat Ibiza
I want to propose you some business,
of 1992."
a robbery, a robbery that’s...
Excuse me, have you got a minute?

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singular.
I’m looking for people who...
Well, people who don’t have much to
lose.
to earn a salary,
a salary which, in the best of cases,
is just a salary, a shitty salary.
What are five months?

What do you think about... I’ve been thinking about this...

2,400 million euros? for much longer.

"Nobody had done a job like that, Not to have to work ever again.

neither in New York, Neither you

nor in London, nor in Monte Carlo.
nor your children.
So if my picture was again in the
Okay.
papers,
You don’t know each other yet
at least it’d be due
and I want it go on like that.
to the biggest robbery ever."
I don’t want any names,
WELCOME
or personal questions,
I welcome you
or, of course, personal relationships.
and... I thank you
I want each of you to choose a name,
for having accepted this...
something simple.
this job offer.
It can be numbers, planets, cities...
We’ll live here,
-Like "Mister 17, miss 23."
far from the worldly noise.
-That’s a wrong start. I can’t
Five months, the five months
-remember my telephone number.
we’ll spend studying
-That’s why I said that.
-how to do the job.
-And planets?
-What do you mean, five months?
-I can be Mars, and he Uranus.
Are we crazy?
I won’t be Uranus, so forget it.
Look, people spend years studying
-What’s the matter with Uranus?
-I don’t like the rhyme.
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-It’ll be cities. Cities.
-So cities it is.
Okay.
"That’s why I ended up being Tokyo.
The one looking at my arse is Mr
Berlin.
Under arrest warrant.
27 robberies.
Jewelleries, auction houses
and security vans.
His biggest job,
the Champs Elysees, in Paris.
434 diamonds.
He’s like a shark in a swimming pool.
You can swim with him,
but you’re never calm.
And he was the boss
in charge of the assault."
"The one who coughs is Mr Moscow.
The first thing he dug was a mine,
in Asturias.
MOSCOW
Then he understood
that digging upwards he’d go further.
Six fur shops, three clock shops
and the Caja Rural in Avilés.
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He uses the thermal lance
and any industrial equipment.
The one sitting
behind Moscow is Denver, his son.
Drugs, teeth, broken ribs.
He’s the king of fights in discos.
Pure hot blood.
In a perfect plan, a time bomb.
Rio. He’s my weakness.
He’s like Mozart, but with computers.
He programmes since he was six and
knows
everything about alarms and
electronics.
For the rest of things in life
it’s as if he had been born yesterday.
And those are the Siamese twins,
Helsinki and Oslo.
Even the most sophisticated plan
needs soldiers
and who better than two Serbs.
Maybe they think,
but, frankly, we’ll never know.
Nairobi,
a hardened optimist.
She has forged banknotes since she
was 13.
And now she’s our quality manager.
She might be crazy,
but she’s really funny."
Think that every day
they’ll talk about us in the news,
every family in the country
will be wondering
what we’re doing.
And you know what they’ll think?
They’ll think: "Bastards!
I wish I had come up with that idea."
"The Professor,
no criminal record, no register.
The last time he renewed his ID he
was 19.
To all intents, a ghost,
but a very smart ghost."
We’re not stealing... anybody’s money,
because they’ll even think we’re nice.
And that is vital.
It’s vital we have the public opinion
on our side.
We’re going to be the fucking heroes
of all those people.
But very careful,
because the moment there is
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a single drop of blood,
this is very important,
if there’s a single victim,
we’ll stop being Robin Hoods
and we’ll simply become sons of a
bitch.
Professor.
Miss Tokyo.
What are we robbing?
The Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y
Timbre.
DAY OF THE ROBBERY
FRIDAY 8:35 A.M.
Who chose the mask?
-What’s up with the mask?
-It’s not scary.
In bank robbery films the masks are
scary.
They’re zombies, skeletons,
the death, I don’t know, you feel...
With a gun in your hand
I assure you a madman
is scarier than a skeleton.
-Stop it.
-Who was this guy with the
moustache?
Dalí, son, a Spanish painter.
He was very good.
-A painter. So a Jesus Christ mask
-Yes. would frighten more, he’s more
innocent.
-A painter of paintings.
-Yes. They say "It doesn’t suit you,
it’s like Christ with two guns."
Do you know what’s fucking scary?
Dolls for children. -"Like a saint with two guns."
-It doesn’t matter.
They’re really scary.
"It was obvious
What dolls?
there was a lack of women in the
Goofy, Pluto, Mickey Mouse, all those. gang."

A mouse with ears is scarier, "A woman can spend two days
that’s what you’re saying? choosing shoes for a wedding,

Yes, arsehole. but she’d never use a single minute

Do you want me to wallop you? to choose masks for a robbery.

-Hey! Everything we had planned was

-I’m right. Listen to me. starting now

If a guy at gunpoint and during those fractions of a second

and wearing a Mickey Mouse mask I thought about all the innocent people
gets in a place, whose lives we would stop
the people will think he’s nuts, in their tracks."

there’s going to be a massacre. E-80 LOCAL ROAD

Do you know why?
"The Professor knew
Because guns and children there was just one way to come

are two things in the Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre

you never put together, daddy. with three tonnes

-Am I right or not? of explosive devices.

-That way it’d be more dangerous, It had to be done in the lorry

more twisted. that entered the building every week

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with the new paper money rolls "If those men had had their daughter
ready to be printed. on the back of the lorry,

And that was what we were going to they’d never have opened it,
do, but who cares about

getting to the very core, some paper money rolls with a

escorted by the National Police. watermark?"

In Spain, anything guarded Hurry up, hurry up!

by two police cars
Jeez, man! Come on!
is something heavily protected."
Come on, come on!
"But if you inhibit any possibility
Sit down. Now calm down, the three of
for their communication you,
through the radio or telephone otherwise, a blow with the rifle.

and if you point two 26-year-old kids You’ll drive with a gun in your kidneys.
with five assault rifles at their heads,
When you get the radio call
it doesn’t matter if they have guns, to know if everything’s all right,

and they feel just like it’d happen you’ll answer coolly,
to any of us." as if everything ran smoothly.

I said get out of the fucking car! Am I clear?

-"They’re scared shitless." "And in the middle of that chaos with

-You’ll do as I say! guns

"Courage and heroism have a price, I remembered the night before

I had been asked for my hand in
and it’s greater
marriage
than the 1,600 euros a month
and that I’d have preferred other plans.
-a kid with a uniform gets..."
-Open the lorry, do you hear me? But if you think about it,
you never find a good day for a
"...or a lorry driver."
robbery."
Come on, damn it, open!
Now you know what you have to do.

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Don’t take your eyes off the girl. And now, be careful what you do.

There can’t be any mistakes, all right? How are you, Javi? Where’s Rafita?

She’s 17. Shift change.

I think I can handle her. Very well. Keep calm.

Can I sit by your side? Okay, children, get in.

Sure. Slowly.

Hello. This is important.

As soon as we get the accreditations...
Hello.
Keep you accreditations
Do you want to go out with me?
hanging from your neck.
Okay. I’m leaving.
They must be visible
No, no. during the whole visit, okay?

I don’t have to think about it. Don’t turn around.

I mean, yes. When you’re next to me,

"Okay, children, we’ve arrived. I can’t even breathe.

Let’s go straight Well, breathe,

to the museum’s hall, where... because in nine months

Pedro, please, don’t behave like in you will really be out of breath.

class. Go ahead.

Let’s go out in an orderly way, Well visible during the whole visit,
using both doors..." children.

And this is the façade The accreditation in your neck.

of the Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre. Lower your voice.

The little lamb is coming in. Berlin, the first camera, on your left.

Perfect. Aren’t you going to say anything?

Berlin, your turn. I tell you I’m pregnant,

and you just keep calm?
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What shall I do, call my wife, You must be Shiva,
tell her to pick up the children the goddess of fertility.

and we all go to celebrate? What are you insinuating?

For God’s sake!
I didn’t come here
Go on, go on. Come on. looking for a pension, you know?

ACCESS TO SECURITY SYSTEM Or for a divorce,

Coming in. and much less for a paternity test.

Be alert, Tokyo. I thought you loved me.

ACCESS TO ALARM SYSTEM And...

Great! And I think it’s a nice idea.

-"Alarms disengaged." Hard to make it fit in our lives, but...

-Now.
but a wonderful idea.
Go ahead, come on.
Listen!
It was you who said yesterday
What? Do you want to know
you’re in a bad situation,
what I’m going to do with your child?
-you can’t stand her, you have
-That’s what you want, right?
problems.
-Listen to me, don’t rush.
-Problems just like any couple,
Mónica, Don’t move!

like any other married couple Freeze.

with three children, Don’t move! Don’t move or I’ll kill you!

not that I want to get divorced. -What’s the matter? Do something!

Mónica, I’ve had three children, -Stand up! Stand up!

all of them with in vitro fertilisation. Get out!

I’ve been having sterile intercourses "Come on, come on!"

with my wife for over 20 years
Hurry up! Don’t move!
and now you tell me this.
Come on, come on!

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Come on! Wait...

Yes, yes! Jesus...

Fuck! Here? It’s a bit seedy, right?

Come on, come on. It’s our first day.

This way. Come on. You look so pretty.

And this wonderful staircase, I can’t find the girl.

made of marble and granite... I can’t fucking see her.

Don’t move! Open here. Open and look a bit sexy.

Don’t move! It’s your phone.

If you want, you can erase it.
Don’t move! Come on!
This is for both of us, for you and me.
Get back!
Come on, come on.
-Please, don’t!
-Professor, we have a problem. With this photo
you’ll be all the rage on the Internet.
I can’t see the little lamb.
Give me my phone! I said give it to me!
I can’t fucking see her!
Give me my phone! Give it to me!
Miss Parker, where have you gone?
Give me the fucking phone!
Wait.
Give me the phone!
-Please!
Give me the phone!
-Let’s go! That way!
Give me the phone!
Stop. Stop.
First of all...
Okay.
Good morning.
Okay, okay.
I’m the person who’s in charge.
I’m going too fast. I know.
And, first of all, I want...
Let’s immortalize this, right?
to offer my apologies.
Let’s take a picture with your phone.

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Truly, this is not the way -Arturo.
to end the week. -Arturo what?

Phone. -Arturo Román.

-Arturo Román, very well. Arturito.
But you’re here as hostages.
You’re our safe-conduct here,
Phone.
so I’m going to protect you.
If you obey,
Hey...
I guarantee you’ll be left alive.
Give me your hands. Let go.
-Name.
-Alison Parker. Let go. Let go.

-PIN. What’s your name?

-2078.
Ariadna.
Phone.
Ariadna.
Calm down, calm down.
Come with me. Come.
Calm down.
Calm down.
PIN.
Feel my hands.
Why do you need the PIN?
-Are they the hands of a monster?
Either you tell me the fucking PIN -No, no.
or I’ll blow you with my rifle butt.
Because I’m not a monster.
How long are you pregnant for?
I know perfectly how you feel.
Eight months.
The dry mouth, the shortness of
Eight months. breath....
You have to try to calm down. Breathe
-PIN.
in.
-1234.
Breathe in.
You look so smart,
Breathe in.
but you’ve got that shitty PIN.
What an arsehole. Your name. That’s it.
Please, breathe with me, all of you.
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Breathe in.
Easy, easy.
Make yourself responsible
for your breathing. Breathe out.
Very well. Very well.
Miss Mónica Gaztambide, please?
Don’t move. Please, don’t move.
-Lay down here, jeez.
-Come on, Jesus!
When have you had such a bed?
You didn’t have it in jail.
Have you seen where we are, dad?
We’re the best.
-We’re the best.
-Boy, don’t get this wrong.

-Be quiet. We’re very small.

-I said don’t move.
Can you do anything?
Be quiet.
Have you ever had a job?
Miss Mónica Gaztambide,
Have you ever left you CV anywhere?
would you be so kind as to step
Ah. Come on, jeez.
forward?
My CV.
It’s me.
My CV, what for?
You’re a star, dad!
To take you out of Alcalá-Meco?
You’re the best!
Do you think I feel proud of that?
You can sleep very well here, dad.
12 years of my life
You can sleep grandly here.
coming in and out of prison.
Oh! Dad, dad!
And you know why?
Fucking. Here, boom!
Why?
Boom, boom...
Because I’m not very smart, son.
Come on, stop fooling around
And neither are you.
and let’s get to work. Come on, jeez.
But the brains of this job
This smells fucking great.
is another person.
It smells better than roast lamb,
dad, that roast lamb.

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And if we’re lucky No, it can’t be.
and you don’t act like an arsehole,
No, because...
you’ll leave this place
Just because,
with your life settled.
I don’t know where he is right now,
-I’m not acting like an arsehole.
I don’t know if he’s in the factory,
-Come on, jeez!
in the museum, in the canteen
Fill them.
or wherever he is!
I want you to answer the phone And besides, that’s not my job, miss!

and convince whoever it is That was a performance worthy of an

that we are closed Oscar,
miss Gaztambide.
-due to a technical problem.
Understood? "20 minutes after coming in,
-Yes. we started to wire

I have no choice the analogue communication system

but to point at you with a gun. to talk to the Professor.

-Can you feel it? Without phones or radio frequency,

-Yes. with nobody being able to hear us.

Good. We had sealed the doors

and the alarms hadn’t set off.
Now.
We were like in a time limbo,
Fábrica Nacional
with nobody knowing
de Moneda y Timbre, tell me.
we had taken over
No, I’m sorry, I can’t put you
the Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre.
through Arturo right now.
And in that sweet peace, before the
The system is down.
storm,
No, I can’t bring him up here.
it just seemed
No, he can’t come here
an ordinary day."
to pick up the phone.
You look handsome, right?

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Who is it? An engagement badge?

It’s me, let me in. Now at least you’ll know my real name.

Rio, man. If the Professor sees us, Right, but we’re not allowed
he’ll kill us, don’t you know? to know each other’s names.

I know, I know. Well, don’t look at it.

I have to talk to you. Sit down.
But it’s yours.
-What’s up?
How should I tell you this?
-Sit down, jeez.
Our affair has been very well, okay?
What’s up?
Great.
Tomorrow’s the robbery.
We have slept together some
And we have no fucking idea evenings...
what is going to happen.
What do you mean, some?
That’s why I want you to know Jeez, all of them. But four or five...
I’m serious with you
Sincerely, I don’t think
and I understand perfectly that, well, we’re the perfect couple.
that you’re not a child any more and...
-Don’t we fuck well?
and you may be looking for... -Yes, we do fuck well, wonderfully.
a more serious commitment.
That’s a start, right?
That’s why I want to give you
But you need something more
something.
than fucking well to be a couple, right?
I didn’t buy you a ring
Are you saying that because
because we’re locked up here,
I’m 12 years younger than you?
but as soon as I go out
I’m going to have
I’ll buy you such a big gem
300 million euros, right?
you’ll need to carry your hand
I’m not a child, my life is settled.
in a fucking wheelbarrow.
-Really, Rio, I wish we had...
What’s this?
-What do you mean with "had"?

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There was love. There was, I was A little closer.
there.
Calm down.
There’s another man, right?
Calm down. I can see the bags.
Not anymore. They’re full of money.

Look, Rio, Now they’ll leave and it’ll be all right.

when all this is over, "There’s a 10-33 at the Fábrica

maybe you and I will go to Tahiti Nacional
de Moneda y Timbre.
and see if this works, but tomorrow
I only want to think about one thing: Z24 on our way.
We’ll get there in two minutes."
not to get killed.
Two minutes.
Rio.
Two minutes.
Rio, don’t.
-Why did the alarm go off?
No, no.
-I don’t know.
You left a phone on.
They’re just standing there,
Well, turn it off. I don’t understand.

The vault is open. -Why don’t they take the money and
Put on your vests and get ready to go leave?

out. -I don’t know!

As soon as you’re ready, One minute, 40 seconds.

we’ll activate the alarm. One minute...

Berlin, ready to open the doors. What’s your name?

Hostages, for your security, Arturo.

all of you three steps back!
-Arturo, right?
A little more over here. Very well. -Yes. No, I haven’t seen anything!

Okay. Everything’s going to be all I haven’t seen anything, I swear,

right. I haven’t seen anything!

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-Look at me.
-I haven’t seen anything.
Come on, Arturo, look at me.
Look at me, look at me.
Hey, hey, come on.
Hey.
Do you like cinema?
Do you like it?
I’m... I’m a big fan.
Have you realised in horror films
there’s always someone at the
beginning,
like this, a nice guy like you,
and you think: "That guy’s going to
die",
-and then it happens?
-No...
He always dies.
Arturo, believe me, you’re that guy.
"Z24 to headquarters,
we’ll be there in 30 seconds."
30 seconds.
30 seconds.
"It’s vital that the police"
don’t have the faintest idea
about what we’re doing.
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We’ll make them believe
we came in for a robbery,
they caught us by surprise leaving with
the money and everything was fucked
up,
we took out the guns, shot point-blank
and we had no choice...
but to go back.
"And then, not having hurt"
anybody,
we get inside.
"Let them think we’re trapped like rats.
Let them think we’re improvising."
Now!
Tokyo! Tokyo, wait, it’s too soon!
Tokyo!
"Go out, throw the money,
shot at the ground and go back.
I’d heard that more than 30 times.
But what the Professor didn’t tell us
is that they would
also shoot point-blank."
Rio, Rio!
Holy shit, man!
Holy shit!
This couldn’t have started
fucking worse, man!

Fuck!

"Urgent support. We need urgent

support.

In the Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre.

We’ve got hostile gunfire. Officer

down.
I repeat, officer down."

"An M16 bullet is fired at 3,510 kph.

It flies faster than the speed of sound.

So if you’re shot in the heart,

you won’t even hear

the bullet that has killed you.

That’s how I knew I had fucked it all

up,

in a millisecond

and the same way as usual."

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