The thieves scramble out of the building while Driver's police radio relays immediately there's trouble. The law has spotted them somewhere.
For the next 5 minutes Ryan Gosling takes the wheel in a cleverly orchestrated game of cat-and-mouse as he sneaks through the back streets and alleyways around the crime scene. All the while ominous patrol cars with their search lights lurk in the distance. For some strange reason he's tuned into a Clippers basketball game on the radio, about to wind down to its final seconds.
He gets spotted by a helicopter but eludes them under a bridge. Within moments he almost gets away only to be spotted by another patrol car that gives chase. You assume this is it, and there's no way he's going to outrun the police radio within the thickly populated inner city L.A. grid...
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