Set It Off Page #9

Synopsis: After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) begins working at a janitorial service with her friends Tisean (Kimberly Elise), a single mother; Cleo (Queen Latifah), a boisterous lesbian; and Stony (Jada Pinkett), who is dealing with the recent death of her brother. The women are struggling with their finances, so they decide to start robbing banks. At first the group is successful, but they soon attract the attention of an obsessive detective (John C. McGinley).
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
R
Year:
1996
123 min
12,626 Views


There we go. Move it.

There we go. Nice and smooth,

ladies and gentlemen. Nice and smooth.

- Stay down! Don't move! Don't move!

- Lida Newsom!

Sh*t.

- F***.

- Stony!

Don't do this.

Put the gun down. Put it down!

Don't do this. Cleo.

- No! CLEO:
F*** you!

No, no!

Stony.

Now, I know the deal, I do.

And I'm sorry about your brother.

I'm sorry about Stevie.

I'm sorry he's dead, I swear to God.

But don't do this.

Stevie was enough!

He was enough.

No more killing.

Put the weapon down.

Stevie was enough.

Stony, put it down.

Come on.

There you go. Cleo, come on.

Come on.

What are you doing?

Motherf***er!

- Cleo!

- Here, baby. Hold on.

- Come on, baby. Come on.

- Aah!

Come on, come on.

Let's go! Let's go!

Help me out.

Come on, get inside now. Tisean, hurry up.

Come on.

Back it up. Back it up. Back it up.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- Come on, Frankie!

- Sh*t! Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!

What happened?

What happened to her?

Drive this!

She's gonna be all right!

I need you to drive this car really fast

and get us to the hospital, okay? Go.

This is not gonna make it.

We gotta switch cars.

All right. Do what you gotta do.

Listen to me. You listen to me.

- Okay? You are gonna make it through this.

- Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

- You understand me?

- Okay.

It doesn't hurt. We've been

through a lot together, haven't we?

You okay? That's what I wanna hear.

I wanna hear you're okay.

- Yeah, I'm okay.

- Yes, I know you okay.

Okay? Please hold on for me, baby, okay?

Come on, Frankie, man. Drive this car.

You'll be okay.

- You better tell them to hurry up.

- Okay.

Come on, you guys.

You know what?

Keith.

- He gonna be mad at you.

- Ha, ha.

You don't worry about Keith, okay?

You worry about that tattoo

you gonna get over that hole.

- Okay.

- Okay.

You know what I can use right now?

I can use a banana flambé.

Remember those banana flambés

we had that time at that restaurant?

They were so good.

Remember?

Stony, we got it started.

Come on, let's get her.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

- We're sorry, T.T.

- Frankie, we can't stay. Let's go.

Come on, let's move it!

Suspects are coming closer now.

Police reports indicate

that the women are from Los Angeles.

They've been identified...

...as Lida Newsom, Francesca Sutton,

Tisean Williams, and Cleopatra Sims.

You've just seen these alleged bank robbers

avoid a blockade on the 1st Street Bridge.

However, the police

are still on the suspects' tail.

We'll try to follow the action

as best we can.

- I'm going!

- You've got to drive faster.

Come on, they're on our ass.

They're right behind us, Cleo!

- No, no, no! Hold on!

- Watch out!

Watch out!

Oh, my God, we lost them!

Go, go, go!

- Come on, go!

- We gotta find a car.

That was a close one. Here we go again.

The suspects

barely getting away this time.

I don't see any police vehicles

in pursuit at the moment.

But the L.A.P.D. helicopter next to ours

has clearly got a beat on them.

I just checked with the L.A.P.D. liaison...

...he's reporting

that this 1962 Chevy Impala...

...has approximately 40 minutes

of fuel left.

Go, go, go!

- I'm going.

- Is it our light?

Damn.

Come on.

- I think I lost them.

- Yeah, you lost them.

- All right.

- You're good.

Okay.

We have visual contact

with suspects' vehicle in 2nd Street Tunnel.

- Sh*t.

- Damn.

Damn it.

- What are we gonna do?

- What are you doing?

- Okay. Think, think, think.

- Come on. F***.

- Okay, okay.

- Okay.

Okay, let's think, let's think, let's think.

What?

What?

Look, I want you to get out

and lean up against the wall.

And in 60 seconds,

I want you to run that way.

- Cleo, f*** no. Hell no.

- Stony, shut up! We gotta split up, okay?

We gotta.

Look, I'll catch up to y'all later. I promise.

- What we gotta do about the money?

- Just hold onto it.

Come on.

Come on, let's go.

All right, motherfuckers.

Suspects are on the move.

You want it? Here it go.

Here we go, me and you.

They're on us.

- Yo, we gotta dump these clothes.

- Okay.

Oh, God.

- You be careful, okay?

- Okay.

Okay.

And now the police

are all over the suspects' tail.

- We'll try to follow...

- Ain't that your girls?

Hell, yeah.

Damn, that's f***ed up.

It's them.

Hold your positions.

Step out of your vehicle

with your hands in the air.

Step out of your vehicle

keeping your hands in the air.

We've just had...

...a horrible moment here.

This our greatest fear

as for what would've happen today.

This is the most...

...tragic culmination

of the day's events.

Damn.

Oh, God.

We're not late, are we?

Freeze. Drop the bag,

get your hands where we can see them.

- Slowly turn around.

- Get your hands up.

...Tampa Avenue, pick up.

Wait!

Wait. Wait now. You wait. Waller!

You wait! Goddamn it, you wait.

Francesca. Frankie.

Listen to me. I'm taking it off here.

I'm not carrying.

Okay?

Okay? I got nothing. You wait!

Frankie...

...Tisean is dead.

Cleo's dead. She's dead.

All you got is you.

And now you gotta save you.

Do you understand me?

Now, I need you on the ground.

Frankie, I need you on the ground.

- Wait!

- So, what's the procedure...

...when you got a gun at your head, huh?

What's the f***ing procedure

when you got a gun at your head?

It's over.

Oh, my goodness.

- What you all laughing at?

- Ha, ha.

We did it! We did it!

Whoo! Whoo!

Cleo, sit.

Man, I remember

when you was just a little scrub...

...always trying to follow us around.

Hello?

Hello.

Stony, I'm glad you're safe.

I am.

Thank you.

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Takashi Bufford

Takashi Bufford was born on August 15, 1952 as Takashi A. Bufford. He is a producer and writer, more…

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