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Impressions:

Eh, I accidentally deleted some important file and can’t start Microsoft Word anymore until I reinstall it, which I haven’t gotten round to doing yet. I’m using WordPad, which doesn’t have spell check, so there are probably quite a few spelling mistakes and such. Anyway, I found this episode to be better than the last three. Although there wasn’t any fighting, the robbery of Central Bank was very interesting and entertaining. I wish Bruce hadn’t died and would reappear later on in the series, but that’s not gonna happen. I wonder what kind of relationship Bruce had with Mister and how he ends up giving him the assets. Swamp is much less tough in Bruce’s time and I find it highly unlikely Bruce would have given him the assets even if they were close partners/friends. What’s with Mister saying that Swamp is of the same skill as Bruce last episode? And what happened to D Bonny and the other two? Did they die or are they still alive. Maybe they’ll make an appearance sometime. How many episodes are there again? I wonder how they’re going to fill the episodes. It’s only episode five and they seem pretty close to the treasure/ Will the whole storyline focus on obtaining the treasure and fighting off Maricano within the two days, or will it drag on to after that span of time? Once again, Angelica’s importance in the show still remains unknown. She seems to have nothing to do with the original robbery and confrontation with Marciano, so I don’t think she’ll make an appearance in the rest of the video.

Summary:

Having escaped Marciano, it is time for the location of Bruce’s treasure to be revealled. The pendant holds the chip to Bruce’s artificial eye. Bruce informs everyone that Bruce had robbed Central Bank. Katana and Bishop cannot believe this as Central Bank is thought to be impossible to rob, and even if it had been, it would have been big news. Swamp cuts in, saying that they couldn’t make it public, as Central Bank is revered as the pride of the financial system of the universe. Letting slip that it had been robbed would have have destroyed this. Katana and Bishop remain silent. Mister decides it is time to watch the the pendant’s video. He takes out the chip and inserts it in a playback device, much like a projector. They begin to see the world in Bruce’s eyes.

Bruce had found a job in Central Bank to gain the trust of the company before robbing it. He had assumed a false identity: Otis Ray. He had become successful and well-known quickly, climbing to the top within a year. He had never forgotten his orginal object of course, and slowly worked to infiltrate the main vault’s blueprints, which is also known as Gigabank. Sometime before the robbery, he meets up with Swamp, and three other guys (Mister is not one of them). One of the other men is called D Bonny, who does all the complicated stuff such as constructing a fake eye. The five meet on Graceland and spent 100 million space dollars to contruct a duplicate Gigabank. The vault works like a pentagonal Rhubics cube (’pentagonal’ and ‘cube’ really contradict each other, don’t they?). Anyway, the vault has movable parts which reorganise themselves so that the money winds up at the top when it is needed. To fully understand how it works, I suggest you watch the episode. The vault constantly spins, so staying inside and not losing your sense of direction is quite hard, which is why Bruce had built the fake one and spent a lot of time inside planning the robbery. The five also go over the security arounf the vault, which had been gathered by Swamp impersonating as a security officer. First is the master card key which only the manager of Central Bank holds. Then there is voice recognition. Third is a retinal scan, and lastly, a scan to determine the vein structure of the manager’s hand. Swamp had said that only the first one would be possible, as it is near impossible to duplicate the manager’s eye, voice and hand. Bruce dismisses the idea and says he has worked everything out.

Some time later during the day, Bruce has a meeting with the manager and spikes his tea. While he is out cold, Bruce takes his card and swipes it in a device that would store its data, allowing it to be reproduced later. Next, he takes a snapshot of his eye with an advanced sensory device that would allow the lens to be reproduced as well. The hand is scanned next to find the the vein pattern on his hands. With all that, Bruce leaves the room. The manager wakes up and doesn’t realise there has just been a sever security breech. Later, Bruce checks on D Bonny who had been working on the fake eye and hand. The eye was successful but the hand was not, so Bruce had to find another way of getting past the vein recognition scan.

The night before the operation, the four who are going in synchronise their watches. When they part, Bruce gives Mister a call and tells him he’s going to rob Central Bank. The two talk like they’re very close, which is probably why Bruce gave Mister the assets instead of Swamp. The next day, the operartion begins. The aim is to set a bomb off inside Gigabank, which will set off emergency procedures of evacuating the money outside. Before the actual robbery begins, Bruce records the manager’s voice and uses it to bypass the voice recognition. He dresses up as the manager, wearing a face mask and infiltrates the vault. He reaches the last scan and Swamp deactivates the surveillence cameras for a few seconds, allowing Bruce to enter via side shoot. He places the bomb inside, setting it off and causing a big commotion. The other two working with Bruce impersonate a military force and take the money for ‘evacuation’. Two workers who had been quite close to Bruce notice that he is on the ship that is taking the money. They finally realise what’s really going on.

And so, half the video is over. The next episode (I assume) will be of the last part, where Bruce meets up with Mister, encounter Maricano, hides the assets and gets killed. Mister asks Katana and Bishop if they really want to go through with this. Of course, they agree.

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