The Heist Team Forms

He measured the vault’s size, counted the boxes, noted which safe held the bank’s

cash and where that safe was placed — even how the vault locks worked and how thick the walls

were. He wrote down every detail. Tommy brought all this information

back to Gerald, and real planning started. Gerald realized that he and Tommy

alone could not break into the vault — they would need more people, a strong team.

First they added Bangs — another corrupt police officer. That made three men in the team.

Then they added a fourth man, Francis O’Leary. Francis used to be a gangster and

had a lot of experience with robberies. Now they were four, but Gerald still saw a big problem: