NYPD
Detective Tom Loomis and Officer Joe Fortunato are
working class neighbors in a high-density residential community in
Queens. Though they have rather content lives with families and homes, Tom and Joe are unhappy with their dangerous policing jobs that offer little pay, and seek more money for a better lifestyle. One night, Joe robs a
liquor store while in uniform and simply walks away. Realizing the potential in using his police powers to commit more financially-lucrative crimes, Joe tells Tom, who agrees with the prospect of the pair abusing their authority to commit a heist so they can finally leave the NYPD. Tom visits the house of a
mobster seeking an offer for a heist worth $2 million; the mobster ultimately informs them of $10 million worth of
bearer bonds at a
Wall Street brokerage house and offers a $2 million cut of the earnings if they can successfully steal them. After Tom meets with the mobster, the mafia, suspicious of Tom's intentions and police identity, tries to trail Tom into the
New York City Subway, but Joe manages to hold up a line, allowing both to escape in the crowd. Tom and Joe decide to rob the brokerage house in patrol uniforms during a
ticker-tape parade for returning
NASA astronauts, but after stealing the bonds, they rip them up and throw them out of a window alongside the
ticker tape. This idea is the key component to the whole heist: as the stolen bonds no longer physically exist, no one will find them. During the robbery, the executive of the brokerage house robbed by the duo snags $2 million for himself, and the media reports $12 million was stolen. Tom and Joe flee in
police cars into a section of
Central Park where only
bicycles and
emergency vehicles are allowed, where they are intended to collect their $2 million payout, but the pickup is revealed to be a trap by the mob. However, the pair survive the trap and flee with the $2 million, while the mobster is killed for his failures. ==Cast==