Metro Manila Page #4

You got hired?

Wow, my husband is good!

A pair of boots.

A uniform.

A Kevlar helmet.

Sign here.

How elegant, farmer.

Sir, thank you very much again.

For everything.

If you want to thank me.

Do your job good.

And follow all my commands.

I'll do whatever it takes.

For you, sir.

Good.

For one month you'll accompany

me as the driver.

I train everyone.

So start keeping your eyes

and ears open.

Are you ready?

- Yes, sir.

- Let's go.

Let's go!

This is a ceramic vest.

It can block even an M-16.

M-16?

Brother!

They won't scare us with toy guns.

It is the real deal!

Understood?

Come on.

He's the gate guardian.

Every morning he makes sure

the boxes are empty of money.

At sunset he checks them again

after our return.

Do we deliver the boxes?

Yes.

We deliver it to our clients.

How does the system works?

We never know how much is in there.

Every client have their keys

similar to the banks.

Our company keeps duplicates

of such keys.

Which are kept in the

Processing Center.

If those boxes are missing,

or say, stolen...

All keys are confiscated,

and would only be returned

until the boxes are recovered.

Or when the boxes are destroyed.

We drivers can never hold any key.

You can only enter the

Processing Center...

if Buddha accepts you for a job.

Or if...

You are summoned for a debriefing.

That's what the interview is called,

when you're robbed or stopped by holdup.

Debriefing.

In our company,

we have about two such cases.

Then there are not many robberies, eh?

(chuckles)

Of course there are many.

There are many, Oca.

Especially during elections.

- Why during the elections?

- (laughter)

No politician could win

without expending.

You can only win

by spending so much money.

Those politicians have no cousins

who can always win the lotto.

You for example.

Do you have any cousin

who already won the lotto?

Do you know anyone who

won the lotto?

Eh?

You might likely see more aliens

than winning the lottery.

But we never care. Fine.

We just keep on falling in line.

We're betting everyday, every week.

Just betting.

The truth is...

Everyone has a chance to win.

That's right.

All of us have the chance of winning.

Just that.

Just chance.

But actually winning, impossible.

If the box is opened

without the key,

activates a mechanism,

a built-in fail-safe

that destroys the contents.

It blows ink.

Ever been robbed?

My late partner, Biboy...

We had two boxes...

They had tried to open one

without the key.

Then they wanted the key

for the other box.

When one commits injustice

without wearing a mask,

he will stick up to it to the end.

You know what happens...

when an armored car personnel

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