Molly's Plan
By John M. Floyd, first published in The Strand Magazine
A cash strapped married couple executes the perfect heist of a bank nobody would think to rob.
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With his girlfriend and former bank teller Molly Fremont’s planning, military veteran Owen McKay robs the the bank on Palmetto Street. During the robbery, Owen is pursued by two police officers Scott and Mullen and collides with an old woman pushing a shopping cart. In the ensuing chaos, Owen is seemingly forced to leave behind the money as he flees between the bars of a gate on foot. After the robbery is seemingly foiled, one of the bank tellers, Debbie Martingale, sharply observes that Owen must have planned to escape that way—but if he had planned to escape that way, why didn’t he think to throw the money over the gate as he fled through the bars? Debbie counts the money left behind in the bag, and finds ten dollar bills and black sheets of paper—not the 100s that Owen actually stole. Molly Fremont takes a drag from a cigarette in a hotel room. Owen enters the room, congratulating his wife on their successful robbery. In a dramatic turn, Molly was dressed as the old woman with the shopping cart and the collision served to hand off the stolen money and replace it with the fake.
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