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Who is the train employee who helps?


Why did the train employee locked in the van car with the safe help Donald Sutherland? I guess he was on the payroll, but was he in another part of the movie or mentioned?

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He's being bribed to "look the other way" and not interfere. There is a scene where Sean Connery's character gives him one hundred pounds, a lot of money in those days.

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The movie leaves his fate a mystery, but it ends very badly for him in the book.


i]My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.[/i]

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But wasn't be supposed to be replaced after they raised the security? They lost me there.

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