The Firm

Mitch visits Avery in the hospital. Avery claims to have suffered a small heart attack that will require him to take two months off work. Mitch doesn’t believe him, and it worries him that it might mean someone at the firm is on to his activities involving the FBI. Mitch goes upstairs in the hospital where he meets with Wayne. He tells Wayne how his car got stolen so that now he has a car with no bugs in it. Mitch tells Wayne that he’s gotten all the files he can for the FBI. There are more files in the basement where he believes most of the illegal banking transactions take place, but the basement is too tightly locked up for him to get any files out.

Oliver tells Mitch he has been assigned to another partner. He also asks if Mitch could handle a trip to the Cayman Islands in Avery’s place the following week. Mitch agrees. Mitch goes to visit Tammy in her office, asking her to arrange for new IDs for him, Abby, and Ray. He also asks for a camcorder and a case of tapes.

Ray is walked out of his cell by a guard a little before midnight. The guard tells him he must have friends in high places, then explains that the warden himself planned his escape. He will climb over the wall with “a ladder up there” (401) that the guards will drop and meet a man on the other side. Ray is nervous but manages to get out safely. He asks to be taken to Knoxville.

Tarry arrives at a hotel to meet with Vinnie. He is extremely nervous and barely gets out that Mitch is talking to the FBI, and that he is ready to turn over some incriminating files. Vinnie pays Tarry and sends him out the door as he calls Lou. Tarry is barely halfway down the hall when someone grabs him. FBI director Voyles confronts Tarry and insists on knowing what information he just sold. Tarry reluctantly tells him that it was about Mitch.

DeVasher tells the partners that Mitch is working with the FBI. Mitch is due to fly to the Caymans in a few hours, so they agree that it is time to kill him. At the same time, Wayne takes a call from Voyles and learns that Mitch has been made. Wayne calls Mitch and gives him a prearranged code that lets him know he is in danger. Mitch quickly leaves the building, but he is followed into a local hotel by DeVasher’s people. He manages to get away by hiding in the dressing room of a gift shop. He calls Wayne and tells him he’s leaving town. He also calls Tammy and gives her a message for Abby, instructing her to leave town, too. He buys multiple plane tickets under his own name, and purchases a ticket in cash under another name and flies to Cincinnati.

Lou arrives in Memphis and instructs the partners to stake out all the major airports to find Mitch. He sends DeVasher’s people to Kentucky to retrieve Abby. The FBI do the same thing in their attempt to find Mitch.

Ray travels by Greyhound to Mobile, Alabama, with two FBI agents following in a car. Abby takes a flight from Huntington to Atlanta, recognizing a woman on board she saw following her and Mitch in the Cayman Islands. Mitch arrives in Cincinnati and hops another plane to Nashville. There he rents a U-Haul and fills it with the files in Tammy’s apartment. The FBI agents following Ray call to say they’ve lost him, only to be told that it is essential they find him again.

Ray has checked into a motel in Perdido Beach. Mitch calls to let him know Abby is on her way and that he should watch for anyone following her. When Abby arrives, a blonde woman arrives minutes behind her. Ray breaks into her hotel room and ties her up, leaving her under the motel bed. Ray and Abby talk briefly to Mitch and run for Panama City Beach, Florida.