Doug Macray was raised in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, a town that is notorious for its extortionate amount of bank heists,and armored car robberies. As the movie progresses we discover Doug’s troubled past which involves his mother and her heroin addiction …show more content…
He displays this in the first scene of the movie as he's narrating, and talking to his gang. Right before Doug and his crew begin their heist he says "We see a cruiser, stop, take out the engine blocks, keep movin'. No one needs to get hurt." Once the team forcibly enters the bank Macray instructs Claire Keesey, the bank manager, to get up and open the safe. Claire,traumatized, struggles to open the safe due to her hands shaking uncontrollably. Doug notices this grabs her hand and says "No distress code. Open it clean. Take your time, okay? Breath." he then puts her hand back and she successfully unlocks the safe. Doug exhibits these type of actions throughout the movie, which reveal to us that he's not in fact as ruthless as the company he keeps. Due to Doug's upstanding character, he wins the audience's respect and in turn they take his side unlike FBI agent Adam