Respect Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's Franchise)

"I need a reason, and don't say money. Why do this?"
"Why not do it? Because yesterday I walked out of the joint after losing four years of my life, and you're cold-decking Teen Beat cover boys. Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big. And then you take the house."

After being released from prison following his arrest (itself preceeded by thirteen other investigations into various confidence schemes which never stuck), Danny Ocean decided to immediately get back into the game. His sights were set on one Terry Benedict, the owner of three highly successful casinos in Las Vegas who had coincidentally gotten involved with Danny's ex-wife. Putting together a crew, they set about robbing the vault shared by the casinos on the night of a high stakes boxing match. What they thought would be a one-off job would become the first of several, as the ire of one of the greatest independent thieves in the world and a sleezy casino owner nearly killing one of their number by cutting him out of a deal would bring them back together, each time proving why they were the best in the business.

Feats are tagged with the movie they occur in (Ocean's 11, 12, 13, and 8).

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#As A Group

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#The Bellagio Job

• Planned to rob three of the most profitable casinos in Las Vegas, all connected by a single vault 200ft beneath the ground guarded by a complex series of protections and 'the most elaborate vault door ever concieved by man'^11
  • Looking at schematics, Rusty described the vault as the 'least accessible vault ever designed'^11
• The casino's security systems were described as nearly the least accessible system their specialist had seen, without CCTV that could be externally tapped into^11
  • This was circumvented by using a keycard lifted from a security card to access the casino's server room and tapping directly into them, allowing footage to be viewed remotely from a hotel room^11
• Basher originally planned on knocking out the casino's power by taking out backup systems one by one, but when the weakness was accidentally discovered and fixed before the heist, he swapped to using a 'pinch', simulating a nuclear explosion without the explosion to knockout the power to the entirety of Las Vegas for thirty seconds^11
• Linus pretends to be a member of the Las Vegas gambling authority to out Frank as having been employed under false credentials in order to allow Linus to lift the required codes from Terry Benedict's pocket^11
• After Danny was flagged and picked up at the casino, him knowing and paying off their enforcer allows him to access the building while pretending he was still being assaulted in a sealed room^11
  • Later, he is able to return to the room, creating deniability about him being involved in the heist^11
• Saul gets four 'gems' to be placed in the casino's vault at the same time as Yen places himself in a fake money trolley, with the Malloys passing off this trolley to several real casino workers to get Yen and the gems in the vault at the same time^11
  • Saul fakes a collapse, allowing the live security feed to be replaced by a recording without being noticed and providing Linus the ability to get into the elevator shaft, before being extracted by Rusty pretending to be a doctor^11
• Basher uses the pinch, shutting off power to the entire city so Danny and Linus can get through the security lasers in an elevator shaft^11
• The vault is blown open by Yen using the gems he was placed inside the vault with while Danny places corrosponding devices on the outside, with the result both blowing the door open and disabling the internal security^11
• Using a phone planted on Tess earlier, Rusty calls Terry to tell him that he is actively being robbed, with the unsuspicious recording being replaced on his screens with footage of Danny, Linus, and Yen in the vault. Rusty claims he is holding half the money hostage while the other half is carried out by Terry's workers into an unmarked van, with it driving off as SWAT appears to arrive^11
  • The van is revealed to be remote controlled, with it being blown up soon after to reveal the 'money' inside was simply stacks of stripper ads^11
  • Meanwhile, Terry believes that Swat is infiltrating the vault, with the power being cut before an intruder is discovered and the remaining money is destroyed. In reality, the footage of the trio in the vault was pre-recorded in a set, and they used the blackout as a cover to place the money inside their bags before walking out the front door undetected^11
• At the end of the heist, security camera footage is directed onto a specific channel on a suite's tv, allowing Tess to see that Terry was willing to leave her for his money back^11

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#The Van der Woude Job

• Ocean's team is set up to steal a one-of-a-kind document from a reclusive antiques 'dealer' who never leaves his extremely well guarded home^12
  • No one except the owner knows the codes to the security system^12
• Used a device to send a cable through a window, allowing a device to slide down it and disable the building's security^12
  • When the needed window was too low, they raised the entire house using its pillars to allow the device to be fired successfully^12
• They brought a drill to open the safe, only to discover their target had been stolen before they got there^12

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#The Fabergé Coronation Egg Contest

• To finish paying off their debts, the Night Fox proposes a contest where Danny's crew attempts to steal the Fabergé Coronation Egg, a heavily defended object with multiple replicas so exact no one can tell the difference on observation^12
• The egg is being held in a museum with a randomly moving laser field believed to be impossible to pass, leading them to decide to steal it during opening hours^12
• They initially planned a heist with movements precise to the minute, though this had to be abandoned as the majority of the group were arrested beforehand^12
  • They commissioned a hologram to create a replica of the Fabergé Coronation Egg, which Linus would place on the podium as he lifted the real egg, allowing Basher to trigger it^12
  • Their arrests were planned, with several members purposefully being caught on camera as they stole paintings from the Night Fox^12
• With their newly reduced numbers, they change plans to instead bring in Tess and have her pretend to be Julia Roberts^12
  • They used 'Julia's' fame to get a private viewing of the egg and fakes her fainting to provide Linus an opportunity to make the swap, though he's spotted due to a Europol agent watching the egg intently on security cameras and the remainder of the group is arrested^12
• The FBI arrive to take the group away, though it's revealed they're actually people led by Linus' mother taking them to freedom^12
• Ultimately, it's revealed that everything prior was a theatrical distraction to the fact that they had stolen the Fabergé Coronation Egg before even approaching the Night Fox, swapping the backpack it was being transported in with one containing a replica after distracting its guards with a fight^12

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#The Bank Job

An attack on The Bank Hotel and Casino with three core objectives: To prevent it from achieving the prestigious Five Diamond Award, to financially ruin it by having all its patrons cash out big winnings, and (later on) to steal its owner's diamond necklaces.

Security

• The casino has tapped into the federal fingerprint database, which the crew can already access before the heist^13
  • When they are looking for associates of a person through their fingerprints, they are able to modify the photos and names after they had been sent to Bank through a technique they call the Cartwheel^13
• The building's security is securely hidden with Linus needing to expend a large amount of resources just to get a name, though it's ultimately identified as an AI system which tracks every patron and their biometrics to uncover if a win is legitimate or not and can only be briefly shut down by a magnetron or an act of god, at which point it locks down its room and restarts for a few minutes^13
  • After hearing he wants one through a planted camera, the crew deliver Bank a gold Samsung which is actually a magnetron which triggers and shuts the system down when he's sent into its room by an earthquake and takes a call^13
• Due to hiring and firing multiple architects during its construction, there are no reliably accurate plans^13
• Get past a set of security cameras by faking a call to the guard on duty that there's been an incident with his child at work, causing him to ask a nearby disguised Rusty to cover for him^13
• The crew are able to access the casino's systems, rigging groups of slot machines to deactivate^13

Reward Preventing

• By leading the casino to believe a disguised Saul is the incoming reviewer, they have them completely ignore the real reviewer^13
• Has Saul create a terrible smell from the adjacent room, with him being moved and the reviewer being told nothing could be done^13
• Pays off a maître d' to tell the reviewer he can't eat at an empty restaurant due to all the tables being reserved, instead being directed elsewhere where they give him a dumpling which causes him to throw up^13
• They earlier set up the room to cover the bed with bed bugs^13
  • They do likewise to the room's chair, causing the reviewer to be bitten when sleeping there^13
• At the end, they have the Malloys threaten him to leave his room within 15 minutes, citing a loophole in state law which allows them to evict guests based on their hygine^13

Financially Ruining

• The plan initially had 18 whales win big before leaving
• To rig the dice they use a certain polymer which forces them onto a specific number when a rigged lighter is closed, embedding themselves in the production factory to do so
• To rig blackjack they have Livingston embed himself into a company, faking a polygraph by stepping on a tack for every question and having him fix machines to always deal players 20 and 21 while busting the dealer^13
  • During the heist they have Livingston arrested to swap out the active dealing devices for ones he rigged earlier^13
• To rig slots they hire someone to install a backdoor to specific machines^13
  • This backdoor allows a jackpot win when a specific coin combination is inserted, with Rusty inserting all but the final coin (which he leaves on the machine) before leaving, allowing someone else to complete the sequence without realizing and earn a 'legitimate' win in the eyes of the security system^13
• Rigs roulette by introducing fixed balls, having Frank embedded on the inside as they blackmail a worker who's been selling the casino's golden silverware into making the swap^13
  • Frank is successfully embedded by having Bank be aware of his casino dominos at an expo, before bringing in Terry Benedict to force Bank to make an even better offer^13
  • The swap is made on Frank giving a signal from across the floor^13

Diamond Stealing

• The diamonds themselves are protected by 18 inches of poured concrete and held inside 2 inch thick concussion-proof glass in a secure room with a 7 digit code pressure-sensitive alarm, powered by an independent power supply^13
• Danny agrees with Bank to have the whales who left earlier in the heist to gamble in the casino again, in exchange for a cut of the winnings and each of them getting villas^13
• This leads to Bank's assistant coming to the villa an embedded Yen and Linus are staying in, where a pheremone patch makes her lustful towards Linus^13
• Saying they can't do anything in the villa,^13 they are moved to the privacy of the room holding the diamonds, where Linus plants several explosives before being 'arrested' by his father and removed from the situation, claiming to the assistant the diamonds under his clothes are fakes he planned to swap the real ones with while saying in the elevator he had already made the swap^13
  • When threatened for the diamonds by another thief on the rooftop, this allows him to pass off the fake diamonds under his clothes as the real items^13
• The diamonds are finally stolen by attaching a helicopter's cable to a hook installed on a landing pad earlier, using explosives Linus planted to help blow it free and carrying it away through the air^13

Exit Strategy

• To help break the security system, and to provide a means of getting all the patrons out of the casino with their winnings instead of pumping them back in, they obtain a boring machine to drill against the foundations of the casino, creating the appearance of an earthquake to those inside^13
  • This is followed by Rusty posing as a scientist warning Bank of the risk of an earthquake, causing evacuation plans to be written up and a disguised camera to be placed in his office^13
  • Once everyone has collected their winnings and the security system is back online, they manufacture a strong enough earthquake to get everyone inside to leave^13

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#Other Heists

• Knows a wide variety of heist plans^12
• Stole several paintings from the Night Fox, another master thief^12
• Danny, Basher, and Yen work together to steal a large pinch from the California Institute of Advanced Science off-screen without being detected^11

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#Equipment

• Earpieces^11
• Hides a camera in a suit's button or a bow tie^13
• Uses a device to tell the depth of a wall^13
• Use a pair of rappels to get down an elevator shaft^11
• Bring a drill to open a safe^12
• Use explosives to blow open the Bellagio's vault, destroying the security systems inside^11
• A small device which knocks out two security guards^11
• Uses a device to launch a cable into a building, then slides a device down said cable that hacks a security control panel which no one outside of the building's owner knows the password to^12
• Commissioned a hologram replica of the Fabergé Coronation Egg to fool outside observers for the two minutes it could be active for^12
• The Gilroy is a pheremone patch which instantly knocks a woman back and makes her incredibly lustful for the user^13
• Set up a replica of a casino's vault to practice the heist^11

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#Other

• Observes a thief as he's observing Ocean's crew without him realizing^13
• The Bellagio heist made an argument for Ocean's Eleven being the greatest thieves in the world^12

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#Individual Members

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#Danny Ocean

• Breaks open the door of a scientific institute^11
• Places a phone in Tess' pocket without her noticing^11
• Picks Linus' pocket of a wallet he had just stole, leaving a business card in its place^11

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#Frank Catton

• Gets a car dealer to drop the price of a van by $2500^11

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#'Rusty' Ryan

• Has a fake ID which fools a police officer^11
• With another crew, uses a device which shows him the inner gears of a safe he places it on^13
• Speaks Mandarin^11

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#Reuben Tishkoff

• Knows more about casino security than any man alive^11

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#Virgil Malloy

• Creates a remote control monster truck which keeps pace with its real life counterpart in a race^11
• Edits the photos and criminal profiles sent to the owner of a casino in real time^13

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#Turk Malloy

Turk achieved no individual feats in the movies.

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#Livingston Dell

• Hacks into an otherwise inaccessible system through a casino's server room, allowing its cameras to be viewed remotely^11
• Speaks Mandarin^13

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#Basher Tarr

• Quickly uses parts slipped to him by Rusty while under arrest to create an explosion in a police car^11
• Uses a series of explosives with another crew to destroy the locks on a large vault door^11

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#'The Amazing' Yen

• Climbs up a pole before flipping to an adjacent pole^11
• Moves around in an elevator shaft, surrounded by high-speed elevators^13
• Hides inside a duffle bag^12
• Fits within a small container, pulling himself out to backflip onto a nearby shelf shortly after^11
• With a different crew, uses goggles that reveals security tripwires to him and a jacket with cables that hoist him up to scaffolding on the ceiling^8

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#Saul Bloom

• Keeps track of Rusty over the course of a day before Rusty approached him^11
• Is up 'almost 200' in a poker game by the time Terry approaches him^11
• Constructs a device to make the sound of a dog barking^13

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#Linus Caldwell

• Lifts a plane ticket in the brief moment Danny lifts his hand to ask for the bill^11
• Steals a man's wallet after bumping into him on a bus^11

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#Other Members

Each of the following only joined the group for a movie each.

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#Tess Ocean

• Looks similar to Julia Roberts, fooling Bruce Willis^12

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#Roman Nagel

• Presumably aids Livingston in rigging several dealing machines off-screen^13

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#Terry Benedict

• Speaks numerous languages^11
• Arranged for a car to be blown up on command^12