Bart says he is done with a life of crime. Laurie persuades him to take on one last big robbery so they can flee the country and live in peace and comfort. They get jobs at a meat processing plant and make detailed plans. When they hold up the payroll office, a secretary pulls the burglar alarm and Laurie shoots her dead. Fleeing the plant, Laurie kills a security guard as well. Bart does not realize at the time that she had killed them and only learns about it later after reading a newspaper. The two have separate getaway cars, and are supposed to split up for a couple of months to minimize the chances of both being caught, but neither can bear to be away from the other. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is brought in, and the fugitives become the targets of an intense manhunt, yet they evade a statewide dragnet and escape to California.