What was the deal with the white van in the end?
I had trouble understanding the ending and the white van, can someone please explain?
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It appears that Joe Don Baker's character, Mr. Hinkle, was the real inside man on the robbery. He also seems to be the guy Tommy Dundee described as the insurance man who scares the sh*t out of him and that he's never seen.
Scenario #1
When Tommy organized the heist Mr. Hinkle wasn't aware that Michael would be involved. Once he found out, he probably wanted everyone linked to Michael killed. Whether that included Michael too I'm not sure . But since Michael's brother was a cop and starting poking around, I think that was the final straw for Mr. Hinkle, meaning everyone involved in the robbery had to be done away with.
Scenario #2
Just like Andy Garcia's chracter in Ocean's Eleven, some business owners take it very personally when they get robbed and prefer to handle the perpetrators themselves instead of handing them over to law enforcement.
Sorry coolk. Scenario 2 is not possible, although intriguing. Here's why; when Hinkle gives the "hand off the wheel sign" at the end, to signal to those waiting in that white van that "it's a go" (whatever they are planning to do), that proves Hinkle was part of the heist from the start, because that hand sign is exactly the same that Michael gave to the guy in the yellow suit on the street corner to alert him that the heist was "a go". No hand signal, it was to be aborted. My question is, how could they all be waiting for her to stop at THAT gas station at the end? What if she didn't stop there? Chase her? Guess so.
share"My question is, how could they all be waiting for her to stop at THAT gas station at the end? What if she didn't stop there? Chase her? Guess so."
Good point but perhaps they were following her before she stopped at the gas station and simply pulled in, parked and turned off their headlights just waiting till she came out of the store to start following her again.
The original CRISS CROSS with Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea is much better....