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** That said, in the team's defence [[spoiler:they had to improvise this plan at the relative last minute when the original idea of just breaking into Steve's house to steal the gold became impractical. Also, keep in mind that Lyle was tracking the offlined grid rather than just shutting everything down in one go, so with his reported computer skills he may have at least attempted to minimise disruption to a non-fatal level, particularly since we saw relatively few actual crashes even as the truck chase began]].
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** That said, in the team's defence defence, [[spoiler:they had to improvise this plan at the relative last minute when the original idea of just breaking into Steve's house to steal the gold became impractical. Also, keep in mind that Lyle was tracking the offlined grid rather than just shutting everything down in one go, so with his reported computer skills skills, he may have at least attempted to minimise disruption to a non-fatal level, particularly since we saw relatively few actual crashes even as the truck chase began]].
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** That said, in the team’s defence [[spoiler:they had to improvise this plan at the relative last minute when the original idea of just breaking into Steve’s house to steal the gold became impractical. Also, keep in mind that Lyle was tracking the offlined grid rather than just shutting everything down in one go, so with his reported computer skills he may have at least attempted to minimise disruption to a non-fatal level, particularly since we saw relatively few actual crashes even as the truck chase began]].
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* Despite the team's plan being shown as a clever, bloodlessly nonviolent way to score a ton of gold, the reality is that they left a slew of severely injured, maimed, or outright dead people in their wake.
** [[spoiler:The entire traffic control grid of LA goes down in an instant, with most lights just going to full green. We see a few accidents. What we don't see are people with neck and back injuries, snapped limbs, and all of the other things that can accompany car accidents. You can also bet that more than a few pedestrians got hit as they crossed with the light only to find themselves suddenly facing oncoming traffic. Don't even think about the motorcyclists or bicyclists that got creamed by a trash truck or other heavy vehicle.]]
*** On top of that, with a significant chunk of LA [[spoiler:in full gridlock, fire and medical units won't be able to respond to actual emergencies effectively until traffic is flowing again. This would be a bad time for Grampa Bob to choose to have that heart attack, to say nothing of the dozens upon dozens of traffic injuries that just occurred. Emergency rooms across the city would be jammed for hours.]]
** [[spoiler:Dropping an armored truck 30-40 feet through a street into a subway tunnel creates a lot of impact energy, and truck seats aren't designed to absorb that kind of vertical impact. The driver is shown with blood coming from his mouth, so maybe he just bit his tongue or, more likely, shattered half his teeth. But both guards have compression fractures and probable dislocations to multiple vertebrae, and the blunt force trauma likely caused organ injury and internal bleeding. On top of that, they probably have at least one broken leg apiece, if not a fractured pelvis. That's bad. But then some lunatic fires a tear gas grenade (or similar agent) into the cab, which starts them coughing. Doing that with spinal damage and internal injuries only creates more damage. If they're not dead, they're spending at least a few weeks in the hospital or ICU, followed by a lot of physical therapy...if they're not paralyzed, of course.]]
** [[spoiler:Both motorcycle guards may have ended up dead. Neither one gets up, and both landed in water. The first to go down lands in only a couple of inches of water in a drainage pipe, so he might be okay as long as his head isn't pointing downstream, causing his helmet to fill with water before he regains consciousness. The other lands face-down in what's clearly about a foot of water. Unless he comes to pretty dang quickly, that's how the cops will find the body.]]
* The chopper pilot's career could well be over - at a minimum, he has a lot of uncomfortable questions to answer, including "why were you buzzing city streets?" and "how ''exactly'' did your aircraft end up landed ''under'' an overpass?" He might be able to pawn the whole thing off on Steve (who, let's face it, isn't going to be around to contradict him) and claim he had a psycho passenger with a gun and was flying under duress, but even so, he's going to be having a very unpleasant few weeks.
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* Despite the team's plan being shown as a clever, bloodlessly nonviolent way to score a ton of gold, the reality is that they left a slew of severely injured, maimed, or outright dead people in their wake.
** [[spoiler:The entire traffic control grid of LA goes down in an instant, with most lights just going to full green. We see a few accidents. What we don't see are people with neck and back injuries, snapped limbs, and all of the other things that can accompany car accidents. You can also bet that more than a few pedestrians got hit as they crossed with the light only to find themselves suddenly facing oncoming traffic. Don't even think about the motorcyclists or bicyclists that got creamed by a trash truck or other heavy vehicle.]]
*** On top of that, with a significant chunk of LA [[spoiler:in full gridlock, fire and medical units won't be able to respond to actual emergencies effectively until traffic is flowing again. This would be a bad time for Grampa Bob to choose to have that heart attack, to say nothing of the dozens upon dozens of traffic injuries that just occurred. Emergency rooms across the city would be jammed for hours.]]
** [[spoiler:Dropping an armored truck 30-40 feet through a street into a subway tunnel creates a lot of impact energy, and truck seats aren't designed to absorb that kind of vertical impact. The driver is shown with blood coming from his mouth, so maybe he just bit his tongue or, more likely, shattered half his teeth. But both guards have compression fractures and probable dislocations to multiple vertebrae, and the blunt force trauma likely caused organ injury and internal bleeding. On top of that, they probably have at least one broken leg apiece, if not a fractured pelvis. That's bad. But then some lunatic fires a tear gas grenade (or similar agent) into the cab, which starts them coughing. Doing that with spinal damage and internal injuries only creates more damage. If they're not dead, they're spending at least a few weeks in the hospital or ICU, followed by a lot of physical therapy...if they're not paralyzed, of course.]]
** [[spoiler:Both motorcycle guards may have ended up dead. Neither one gets up, and both landed in water. The first to go down lands in only a couple of inches of water in a drainage pipe, so he might be okay as long as his head isn't pointing downstream, causing his helmet to fill with water before he regains consciousness. The other lands face-down in what's clearly about a foot of water. Unless he comes to pretty dang quickly, that's how the cops will find the body.]]
* The chopper pilot's career could well be over - at a minimum, he has a lot of uncomfortable questions to answer, including "why were you buzzing city streets?" and "how ''exactly'' did your aircraft end up landed ''under'' an overpass?" He might be able to pawn the whole thing off on Steve (who, let's face it, isn't going to be around to contradict him) and claim he had a psycho passenger with a gun and was flying under duress, but even so, he's going to be having a very unpleasant few weeks.
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