Dave grew up moving from foster home to foster home. It wasn’t long till he got into a fight with one of the teens in the neighborhood and got his name booked. He was later pinched for a small robbery that didn’t even turn out a profit. The judge handed out eleven years like it was nothing. 21 years old when he went in, 32 when he came out. Dave was a man from another world. He didn’t know what the hell he was doing, and he didn’t have a social security card or a driver's license. But he did learn one thing during his time at the joint, and that is how to rob a mansion in five minutes and clear half a million dollars in a single night. Dave had met Frankie at the joint who learned it all from a Frenchman. Frankie had a set of rules, and if you followed them, there was nobody in this world that could catch your ass. Frankie would teach Dave how to pick any lock ever made. It was his way of giving another master thief back to society. Among many of Frankie’s rules, one of the most important ones was to never go broke. He always said that “there’s only one crime in this world and that's being broke”. The day you go broke is the day you quit stealing. If you’re broke then you’ve got no money to pay for a bondsman or a lawyer. Dave got out after eleven years. It was time to pay back his debt to society and make up for what he lost. In a single night he covered $15,000 by breaking into three homes. In a career spanning close to ten years, Dave made sure to follow the rules. He wouldn’t rob if he was broke, he never carried a weapon because he didn’t need one, and he made sure that he stayed far away from the mafia. Once you get involved with the mafia, you're a dead man. One of the rules that Dave made up for himself is to stay away from any attachments. It’s like what Robert De Niro’s character Neil said in Heat. “Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Dave lived by that rule and it cost him the chance to have a family and most importantly, a chance to become the father he never had.

 

An unfortunate car accident leaves 45 year old Dave in a wheelchair for a few months. Following the accident, he couldn't even stand for more than five minutes let alone move like he did through million dollar mansions. What’s left of Dave is the memory of his prime and a man devoid of any meaningful relationships to accompany him through life. Dave takes the $200,000 that he had saved up and moves to the town of Dallaway, opening up a car garage. This is where he met Sully. Sully served six months for aggravated assault, jumping into a fight to save his pal. Dave gives him a job at his garage and teaches him all there is to know about locks in hopes of pushing him to start a business as a locksmith. Dave finally feels like he made a friend, and he sees a son that he wishes he had in Sully.

 

When our story begins, they’ve known each other for five years. And every Friday night, they would play a game of carrom (a game that Dave picked up during his trip to India). Dave, now 50 years old, has been sick for over six months. The doctors assume that it is cancer at a terminal stage. The rebellious, and stubborn Dave refuses to spend the last years of his life in a hospital because he knows that he doesn’t have long. Dave is all Sully has now. At 25 years old, Sully is working hard to save up some money to help Dave out with his retirement plan. Dave always wanted to travel to South America, and Sully intends to take him there before he goes out. Sully realizes that working a minimum wage job wouldn’t get him far in Dallaway. Ironically, Dave’s speeches about his past as a cat burglar had the opposite influence on Sully. To earn money as fast as possible, Sully resorts to the one thing that Dave told him not to do. Steal. What Sully doesn’t know is that Dave has about $100,000 left with him. And that money is not for his retirement or his hospital bills. It’s for his kid, Sully.