12/19/2023 0 Comments Flawless 2007Joss Ackland as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft.She has returned to London after a long absence only to tell the story and leave the diamond she found in the sewer, calling it the last reminder of the woman she was. Quinn details how she spent the rest of her life donating all of the money left to her to many different organisations and people in need. Hobbs apologised for involving her, needing a disgruntled employee for access to the diamond vault, and as compensation gave her the ransom money. Quinn tells the reporter that she resigned and shortly after received a letter from a bank in Switzerland: Mr. Finch instead acts by helping the company recover the stolen property and implying to the press that the theft was just a rumour. Finch is unwilling to press charges against Quinn. While there is sufficient proof that she was involved in the incident, Mr. Miss Quinn finds the rest of diamonds and calls Mr. Once the deadline for the ransom has passed, resulting in the insurance head's suicide, Mr. Hobbs confesses that he has no interest in the diamonds or the money, and wants to ruin the head of the insurance syndicate whose deliberate delay in covering his wife's medical expenses resulted in her death many years before. He pulls a gun on her, but she finds a huge pile of diamonds at her feet. Excusing herself, she goes down into the sewer under the company and finds Mr. After losing her diamond earring down the drain, she gets an idea as to how the heist could have been pulled and where the diamonds could be. Finch, Miss Quinn runs to the bathroom and cries uncontrollably. Feeling cornered while out for a drink with Mr. The situation escalates as the diamonds are not returned, the incident is leaked to the Press, and the president of London Diamond Corporation has a heart attack due to the stress. Having no idea where he's hidden them she conceals their scheme. Quinn wants to avoid jail time by giving the diamonds back but Mr. Finch, to keep the matter from going public. The company hires a private investigator, Mr. Quinn, having never agreed to this, now finds herself trapped. The head of the insurance syndicate from King's Row is forced to pay the ransom, leaving him financially ruined. Hobbs steals every single diamond from the vault, almost two tons worth, and holds them for a ransom of 100 million pounds. Hobbs hatch a plan, exploiting a weakness in the new camera security system. At a social event at the Company President's mansion she finds the vault combination codes. Knowing she is considered old by her coworkers and has few other professional prospects, she agrees. He offers her a place in a plot: stealing enough diamonds to make them rich, but not enough to be noticed. Quinn discovers that she is getting fired from the janitor, Mr. She is passed over for a promotion for the sixth time despite being intellectually superior to her male co-workers. The story then flashes back to 1960, when Quinn was still employed as a manager at London Diamond Corporation. Quinn places a box on the table, revealing a huge diamond, and says, "I stole it." The reporter, suddenly enthralled, assumes that Quinn has been in prison for the theft all this time. A reporter enters a restaurant to interview Laura Quinn, the only woman to ever have been a manager at the London Diamond Corporation, for a puff piece about the first generation of women entering the workforce.
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