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Plot mistake? Where did the flyers come from (spoilers)

posted 4 years ago by PleaseRewind (36)
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I love this movie, but every time I watch it, I get stuck on this one thing! I think it may be a hole in the writing....

Towards the end of the movie, Danny, Linus, and Yen are the in vault. Danny and Linus brought only small packs with them; Yen didn't bring anything. While they're in the vault, Rusty makes the call convincing Benedict that he's being robbed. Benedict's men take bags from the vault elevator, put them in the white unmarked van, and it leaves for the airport. Ten seconds later, the SWAT van arrives, the crew sneaks out with them, and the money's in the SWAT team bags.

Then, at the airport, we see that the bags, which were taken from the elevator to the white van, were really full of flyers (and explosives, I guess.)

So, where did the flyers come from? It's already been established that the crew couldn't use the elevator (that's why Danny and Linus had to sneak down during the EMP) so they weren't in there. None of the three men in the vault could've brought the bags of flyers with them, and they couldn't have been planted before. The SWAT team didn't arrive until after the white van left, so the SWAT team couldn't have brought them. So, how did at least 6 huge bags of flyers get put in the elevator?

Any ideas?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

ha. i noticed this too. I think we have to bend for movie holes and assume something dumb, like flyers were already kept in the vault for no good reason. in the end, it doesn't really work correctly.

[–] PaladinNJ (21525) 3 years ago

In Las Vegas those flyers are easy to get and all over the place. Danny obviously had a plan in motion before the robbery. Otherwise he couldn't have arranged to have Bruiser there so he could get away. He probably had those flyers stashed where he could get to them long before they started.