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Bill, Peter, & Joe hang in the Underground; Device PA and a plan.
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Details of first robbery; Andre and Leonard (w/ small money) survive;
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Cold-cocks step-father; Ms. Silvers helps; sets up Merri at Job Corp; raises money for her needs;
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Back from the mink Farm; Bill and Peter are losers at work; establish life as squatters
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Spends a month in Portland; baby-sits kids; takes bus to Job Corp; establish Penny as best friend;
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Back story-Tom;
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Sexual Tension: banter at the tennis courts, confrontation at the cafeteria; addition of Larry; Tom's 'Officer and a Gentleman' moment; Tom's attitude improves; Sally enters the pic w/ Tom;
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Mr X intro'd to PA; Peter excites the guys;
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Bill, Peter and Joe get explosives; Stash at Tongue point
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Get close but Merri hesitates; set date for a movie.
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Breaks the rules; Go to movie theater; Kiss broken up by Larry; Now they are an item
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Sally befriends Penny; plants seeds to anger Merri; Makes the move on Tom in front of Merri; Tom caught offguard; Merri stomps out
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Sally causes Merri and Tom to split up. Merri wrongly thinks Tom is a shit; Penny tells Merri that she talked with Sally who said Tom had come on to her yesterday and that they used to be an item; "He just one more of 'those guys' i.e fake promises.
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Joe/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; Despite his best instincts, Tom acquiesces w/ PA...has a joint
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More drinks; depression Zone #5/ you're on your own; How she can come back
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Life in PDX is bad; Only three days at halfway house; Will she take to the streets?;
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Explosives are in the tunnels to blow up JJA Hotel – Bill notices that Mr. X, the explosives expert, has the explosives under the Hotel, but also under the Bank.
Events with both SLA & Mr. X begin to unravel -
Bill is given money by Mr. X – some of the money is singed. Bill pays for breakfast @ the JJA Hotel Coffee Shop with the singed money. The waitress @ refuses the money.
Banker at next table hears the exchange – pays for Bill’s breakfast in exchange for the burnt $20 – the Banker recalls an alert regarding a bank robbery in San Jose – some of the money from the robbery was burnt – Banker calls the FBI -
PA members plan to make a ‘statement’ by blowing up the John Jacob Astor Hotel; Mr. X claims to be on board with this plan, but really wants to rob the bank across the street; Merri still in PDX
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FBI involved – Merri arrives in Astoria @ the Bus Depot on the east side of the hotel as the bombs are ready to explode; Tom saves Merri from blast