Sneakers

46-99402.

Transfer to 53-01138.

What'd we just do?

The Republican Party just made a generous donation to the Black Panthers.

Farm out. Right arm.

Who's next? Let's see.

Richard Nixon's personal checking account is in here.

Ooh, this is a challenge.

Marty, we have to find somebody truly worthy to give his money to.

How about...

The National Association to Legalize Marijuana.

Perfect. How much should he give?

He's a generous man. I'd say, all he's got. God, I'm hungry!

Marty, you are sure we will not get into trouble for this?

Cosmo, trust me.

Posit, the phone company has too much money.

Oh, good one. Consequence?

They're corrupt. Result?

The system perpetuates itself at the expense of the people.

Conclusion? Ma Bell needs to donate some money.

We're gonna change the world, Marty.

I just wish we could get course credit for this. Gosh!

You gotta eat. You want some food?

Loser goes.

I never lose.

Pepperoni pizza, please, shaken, not stirred.

Power to the people, Cos. Power to the people, Marty.

One cannot trust anybody these days.

No, don't do this.

Marty! Marty!

Marty! Marty!

Martin.

Martin.

Martin. Martin.

It's time.

How're we doing?

Carl's in position on the fire escape. Mother's in the cable vault.

Whistler, he's reading.

We're up.

What's with the lobby? Still just the one guard.

Okay, Mother, try the ones coming off the blue trunk.

Nope.

Try the ones coming off the white trunk, Mother. These don't sound right.

Oh no.

We've even got photos of the guy leaving the embassy

through the back service entrance.

Hey, Crease, you on?

Yeah, I'm on.

Were you still in CIA in '72?

Yeah, why?

Did you know the deputy director of planning

was down in Managua, Nicaragua, the day before the earthquake?

Now, what are you saying? The CIA caused the Managua earthquake?

Well, I can't prove it, but...

I can't talk to that guy.

Hold on, Mother, go back one.

Bingo!

Securing bridge clips.

Preparing to sever master alarm circuit.

Five, four...

I looked in that box just now.

There wasn't anything there.

I know how you feel. Do you?

Nice bank?

You wouldn't believe what I had to go through

just to get a safe deposit box.

Oh, shit. We're getting too old for this.

Westguard Security. Yeah, I got a fire at Centurion Bank.

Yeah, we got the alarm.

Are there any secondary indications? Smoke or flame?

No.

It's probably a false alarm.

We've been getting them in your area all night. See if it resets.

Oh man, I don't know.

Sure you know which one to cut?

Yes! The alarm's always the green one.

Good, Carl.

Hey, man, I'm not waiting any longer. I'm calling the fire...

Oh. It stopped. Sorry.

Hey, no problem. And, son?

Sir?

Good work.

Thank you, sir.

All yours, Bish.

So, how much do you want?

80,000.90,000. 100,000.

Okay-

May I ask why you're closing your account with us today, sir?

Well, I just had this weird feeling that my money wasn't safe here anymore.

Gentlemen, your communication lines are vulnerable.

Fire exits need to be monitored.

Your rent-a-cops are a tad under trained.

Outside of that, everything seems to be just fine.

You'll be getting our full report and analysis in a few days.

But first, who's got my check?

So, people hire you to break into their places

to make sure no one can break into their places?

It's a living.

Not a very good one.

Thank you.

Is that him?

Oh yeah, that's him.

Who's got the report for the bank sneak?

I'm gonna type it up later.

You are?

We haven't paid the typist since January, so it's either me or Whistler.

Better Whistler.

We've got customers.

Shoes?

Expensive.

Look busy, guys-

Mr. Bishop. Dick Gordon. Hi.

Buddy Wallace. Hi.

We've heard a lot of great things about you.

They're all true. Thanks, Carl.

Gentlemen, why don't we go to the conference room?

You can tell us how we can help you.

Good.

Okay. Thank you.

So here...

Before we begin, there's something we'd like to clear up.

Most firms of this type are staffed with ex-law enforcement types.

But your team, it's...

I know, kind of different.

Yes, you are.

Darryl Roskow, also known as "Mother."

Eighteen months at Dannemora for breaking and entering.

Yeah, he was framed. But he's got the best hands in the business.

Carl Arbogast, age 19.

Caught breaking into the Oakland City School District computer

to change his grades.

I know. We're the ones who caught him.

Irwin Emery, also known as "Whistler."

He had some little problem with the phone company.

Sixty-two counts?

Okay, you want law enforcement?

How about Donald Crease? Twenty-two year veteran of the CIA.

Terminated, 1987. Why was that?

I don't know. I think maybe a personality conflict.

Who are you guys?

Relax, Marty. We have to check on these things.

It's just everybody on your team has had some sort of problem in their past.

And then there's Martin Bishop.

He doesn't seem to have a past.

Sorry to waste your time, gentlemen. I don't work for the government.

We know.

National Security Agency.

Oh, you're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.

No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.

Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments, set up friendly dictators.

No, that's the CIA.

We protect our government's communications,

try to break the other fellow's codes.

We're the good guys, Marty.

Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is, Dick.

All right, that's enough. Let's go.

If you change your mind call us at this number...

Mr. Brice.

Help me out?

Spare a quarter? Help me out. The government's taken away my home.

Talk to him.

Well, if it isn't Robin Hood.

You know, I could've joined the NSA, but they found out my parents were married.

Hey, hey, we're all friends here, right? Easy, easy.

Want some coffee or something?

No.

Buddy, is that Janek's file?

Yeah, Janek's file.

This is a mathematician named Dr. Gunter Janek.

Works at a think tank called the Coolidge Institute.

Specializes in large number theory, prime numbers, factoring.

Cryptography. Very good.

Last month, the good doctor gets a grant, $380,000.

Way out of profile for a guy like that.

It's our job to be curious, so we traced the money.

Guess where it comes from?

I know you're not gonna say Russia. Yeah.

Give me a break.

We won, they lost, you know? It's been in a couple of papers.

Yeah, we still spy on them. They still spy on us.

We intercepted a fax last week. Here.

They're making some kind of box, a little black box.

The project's called Setec Astronomy. We don't know what Setec stands for.

Security technology... Sensor techniques, who knows?

It may be nothing or it may be something. And we need to know.

Your job is to find that little black box. Let us take a look at it.

Yeah. No way.

Sorry, Marty. We don't have a lot of choice here.

Do it yourself.

We can't. Why not?

By law, we're not allowed or equipped to do this kind of operation.

Then get the FBI.

Yeah, right, the FBI.

The FBI can't work for us without approval from a congressional committee.

We don't have the time. So, why me?

Frankly, because we...

Yeah, frankly.

Marty, sit down, please.

Frankly, because it's kind of illegal.

You've managed to stay underground more than 20 years.