September 15 - One Last Heist (Cliche Busters - Volume 1)

It was supposed to be a simple job. Nobody was supposed to get hurt. Get in, get the jewels, get out.
John Lockhardt had been looking for a way out of the heist game, and this was it: one final payday and he could walk away forever. He had his suspicions about the mysterious figure who had approached him about the job, but the money was too good to walk away from.
He got his old group together and hatched the plan.
Dexter would score the forged passports and falsified travel documents.
Gary would seduce the bookishly beautiful engineer who'd designed the bank vault, and lift the computer files explaining their operation while she slept.
Donald would tunnel under the bank and set the explosive charges.
Sam would disable the bank's silent alarm.
Linda, posing as a French tourist, would distract the guards.
Jimmy and Taylor would work crowd control.
And John would crack the interior vault.
Once they got started, once Linda lured the guards away from their posts, and once Jimmy and Taylor pulled out their weapons and told everyone to get on the floor, John would have just three minutes to find the interior vault, crack the code, and get the ice before the bank's alarm system overrode the manual shutdown and went back online, alerting the entire Monaco Police Department, Interpol, and every other law enforcement agency in Europe that someone had swiped the Rothschild Diamonds.
At which point Donald would trip the charges and blow a hole through the bank's floor that the team would drop through once they'd donned their wetsuits. Then, entering the sewer, they would jet ski their way through the tunnels to where they emptied out at the harbor, rendezvous with their local contacts, remove their wetsuits, change into their new disguises, and casually board a tourist cruise liner bound for Greece. There they would deliver the diamonds, collect and divide their money, and live happily ever after.
Yeah.
Right.
Sure.
That was the plan.
Just one last job.
In and out and done with bank heists forever.
But in that game, nothing ever went according to plan.
Except that one last job.
In fact, John was actually kind of blown away by how smoothly it all unfolded.
There were no double-crosses, no mistakes, no miscalculations, no deadly shootouts, no missed rendezvous, and no backstabbing. Everybody was where they were supposed to be and they did their jobs flawlessly. Nobody got separated from the group, nobody got hurt, and nothing at all went wrong.
The entire heist went exactly according to plan.
And when it was over, John Lockhardt and his team walked away from the bank heist business, made some very wise investments, and enjoyed a very pleasant and sensible retirement.