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| “ | 'It's a long shot', I should 'play it tight'. You know what I think of your bullsh-t advice? I think that's you trying to talk me into taking a sucker's share on a score that I set up, from the beginning! You think I'm f--king stupid, that I don't see what you and Max are doing?... I mean, what is he giving you? Five, six million? Tell me that's not true. See, that doesn't work for me. I appreciate your help, but you should've made me a partner. Now I gotta take a shot. Just sit tight. Just sit tight. Everything will be fine. Now you got a choice. You can either head for that tunnel... or smile for that camera. | „ |
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Jack Teller is the main antagonist of the 2001 crime thriller film The Score. He is a con artist and thief who conspires with career criminal Nick Wells to steal a priceless jeweled sceptre, only to turn on him.
He was portrayed by Edward Norton, who also portrayed Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear, Derek Vinyard in American History X, Eric Byer in The Bourne Legacy, Steve Frazelli in The Italian Job, Nova in Alita: Battle Angel, and Miles Bron in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Overview[]
Teller is an ambitious, but arrogant, professional thief living in Montreal. He specializes in infiltrating the places he plans to rob by posing as a mentally handicapped janitor named Brian, learning all of its security weaknesses, and exploiting them to rob the businesses blind. He fences the stolen valuables through a well-connected receiver named Max.
The Score[]
As "Brian", Teller gets a custodial job at the Montreal Customs House, which is temporarily housing a priceless 17th century royal sceptre. He quickly learns the Custom House's every security weakness and tells Max they can steal the sceptre and make a fortune, but that he needs someone to crack the safe that it is being stored in. Max tells Teller to talk to Nick Wells, a career safe cracker whom he has worked with for years.
Teller stakes out Wells' house and approaches him as "Brian", asking for directions. He then drops the act and identifies himself as "Max's guy in the Customs House", and later approaches Wells and Max to recruit them for the job. Wells, who wants to retire as a thief and become a legitimate businessman, rejects the offer, and later sends his associate Burt to Teller's apartment to intimidate him into leaving Montreal and never coming back. Teller manages to subdue Burt, however, and arranges a meeting between himself, Max, and Wells in which he finally persuades Wells to come in on the heist in return for a share of $6 million.
Teller provides Wells with blueprints and schematics of the Customs House, which Wells uses to break into the basement, where the sceptre is located, and find an escape route. Teller steals schematics of the safe, while Wells gets the passcodes to the Custom House's security system from a hacker he sometimes works with. The company's system administrator catches them and blackmails them, but Teller manages to talk him down and pay him for the codes. The heist becomes more complicated, however, when Wells finds out that Max is in debt to a mob boss who knows about the job, and that the Customs House has added CCTV cameras to their security. Meanwhile, Teller asks Wells to take him along after they steal the sceptre to hand it off to Max. When Wells refuses and advises him not to make such reckless decisions, Teller becomes paranoid that Wells and Max are going to cheat him.
The night of the heist, Teller shows up for his night shift with a gun hidden inside his portable radio. He bypasses the security system using computer components that Burt, posing as a garbage truck driver, had smuggled in. Teller shuts off the cameras just as Wells breaks into the basement through the sewer, but he is interrupted by another janitor, whom he locks in a closet at gunpoint.
Wells succeeds in cracking the safe and taking the sceptre, but Teller pulls a gun on him, demanding that he hand it over. Wells gives him a case that supposedly contains the sceptre, but Teller turns the security cameras and alarms back on, forcing Wells to flee through the sewers. Teller, meanwhile, hides the case in his work uniform and casually walks out of the Customs House as the police arrive.
Teller goes to a bus station to get out of Montreal, but he cannot resist calling Wells to gloat. Wells turns the tables, however, by saying that he had another plan in case Teller double-crossed him, and then asks Teller if he is sure he got the sceptre. Suddenly worried, Teller opens the case to discover a scrap metal decoy; Wells has the real sceptre. Teller tries to negotiate with Wells to no avail, and then threatens to give him up to the police. Wells, unmoved, replies that he has disposed of everything connecting him to the heist. Before hanging up, he advises Teller to get as far away as he can because every police officer in Montreal will be looking for him. Sure enough, the Montreal police begin a "massive manhunt" for Teller, whose face is all over the news.