Plot hole: At the end of the film Mardukas reveals that he has been wearing a body belt packed with cash - "in the neighbourhood of three hundred thousand dollars" - ever since Jack detained him in New York. Are we to assume that Jack Walsh, an experienced, hard-bitten ex-police officer, now a bounty hunter who routinely chases down violent and armed bail absconders who would kill him without a second thought, didn't even perform a perfunctory search of Mardukas when he detained him? This man used to work for the Mafia! What if he was carrying a weapon? A body belt with three hundred one thousand dollar bills in it would be uncovered by even the most casual pat down.
Midnight Run (1988)
Ending / spoiler
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Brest
Jack and the FBI hook up in Las Vegas to sting Solano during an exchange of the Duke for bogus evidence. The sting works and Solano & his goons are arrested by the FBI. Jack gets Duke back and continues his journey to turn the Duke into the bail-bondsman for $100,000. They land at LAX, but Jack reconsiders and releases him out of principle and gives him his watch as a gift. The Duke in turn gives him a gift of nearly half-million dollars which he was carrying with him the whole time.
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Suggested correction: He was using $1000 bills. That's 300 bills in the belt which spread evenly absolutely could have been missed near his waist as part of his clothing.
Rubbish. I specified $1,000 bills as that would be the smallest package he could have secreted about his person, and it would still be instantly detectable. If he used $100 bills the package would be ten times larger, and he would have to carry a rucksack under his shirt.
Jimmy Serrano: Don't say a fucking word to me, Sidney. Don't you say a fucking word, or I will get up and bury this telephone in your head.
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