Malcolm

Malcolm is a meticulous tram enthusiast who works for Melbourne's Metropolitan Transit Authority. He secretly builds a cut down tram at work and tests it on the tracks using materials from his job. When his boss discovers this, Malcolm is fired.

With no income after losing his job, Malcolm takes in a boarder as suggested by a local shop owner. The boarder is Frank, a petty criminal recently released from prison. Frank brings his girlfriend Judith, who soon moves in with them.

Frank and Judith are wary of Malcolm at first, but their uneasy coexistence deepens into an awkward friendship. Despite their differences, the three start to bond around Malcolm's gadgets and shared schemes. This fragile alliance sets the stage for their criminal plans.

Malcolm unveils a getaway car that splits into two independently powered halves. They test this device and use it to elude police after Frank steals cash from a bank customer. The demonstration shows the potential of Malcolm's inventions for theft.

For their next demonstration, Malcolm stages a payroll delivery heist using a radio controlled model car with a camera, speaker, and blanks for a gun. Frank joins in and helps steal the cash, but the planned getaway via a street drain proves too tight and the cash is lost. The failure prompts them to push forward with larger plans.

The trio devises an audacious plot to steal the weekly 250,000 cash delivery from a major bank. Malcolm collaborates with Frank and Jude to craft concealed and ingenious devices, including armed, remote controlled robot rubbish bins. The plan marks a shift from experiments to a full blown heist.

The botched robbery setup uses armed robot bins to march up to an overhead walkway between bank buildings. When guards cross the walkway with the cash, the bins immobilize them and the van below uses a spring loaded arm to smash a window and push the cash into a chute. The team executes the heist with astonishing precision.

The team diverts attention by disguising their van as an ice cream truck and deploying a Ned Kelly style dummy in a radio controlled wheelchair as a police decoy. The decoy attracts scrutiny while the real loot moves toward safety. The ruse buys them crucial moments to escape.

Pursuit by the police continues while the trio switch to a backup plan and abandon the van. They vanish into a suburban street, only to have a tram pull away in the distance. The camera then reveals the front of the tram is actually Malcolm's custom mini-tram carrying the trio and the loot.

In the final scene, Frank leaves a bank in Lisbon with the proceeds from the Melbourne robbery. He meets Malcolm and Jude at a local cafe and they lay plans for another daring heist. The trio remains united by their unusual talents and shared dreams of crime.