44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003 TV Movie)

Michael Madsen: Frank McGregor

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• Frank McGregor : RHD. Robbery-Homicide Division. We're the best of the best, and we get all the high-profile cases. L.A. Confidential. Al Pacino in Heat. Joe Friday and all that. The only difference is, those guys don't have to juggle 75 cases all at once. Me, I've got to prioritize. Back in '95, my priority was them. We had a name for them. We called them the "High-Incident Bandits". Chatsworth. Two years prior. These guys decided to make an early withdrawl. They killed the guard, executed him. Ambushed him. Took his head off with an AK-47. That kind of firepower in a bank job is unheard of. These guys were an anomaly. I made a promise to that widow that I wouldn't quit until I caught up with the sons of bitches that killed her husband. We make promises like that all the time in my kind of work. We like to think that we mean it. That time I really meant it. Six months later, another armored car. Then, two more banks. Takeover-style. The most dangerous kind. They got away with over two million dollars. I guess they wanted to live the good life and they wanted to live it pretty fast. Instead of getting a job like the rest of us. Anyway, they disappeared into the wind one day, but I knew they'd be back.

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  Frank McGregor : Ninety percent of cops go through their whole career without ever firing their gun. That day, that was roughly 1500 rounds fired. We were armed with pistols. These guys were slinging automatic machine guns. An AK-47 machine gun is a weapon that was designed for war. A high-velocity round invented to penetrate armor and kill their target. You use them in a bank job, and you've done something no one in America had ever done before. Danger's all around us. In the streets. In the car. Maybe even the guy next door.