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)
Plot summary
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Brest
Jack Walsh, bounty hunter, is hired by a bail-bondsman to catch his biggest bail-jumper, a mob accountant called the Duke. The FBI wants the Duke for testimony against his former boss and his boss wants him dead so he can't testify (plus he stoled millions from him). Walsh quickly captures the Duke in NY and has to return him to LA before the deadline. The journey takes him cross-country with the FBI and mob a step behind them. A second bounty-hunter also chases the two in an effort to steal the Duke and collect for himself.
Deadwood
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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.
Jack Walsh: Here come two words for you: shut the fuck up.
Trivia: All of Dennis Farina's scenes were shot in Las Vegas; he was there filming his TV series Crime Story at the same time.
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