Dead Presidents: The Satan Twins [Chicago]

A pair of retired Navy-men, relatively young after serious service, seek a life of calculation in the Windy City and may find a baker's dozen!

An urban opus inspired loosely by Dead Presidents. Enjoy! 

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The Windy City of Chicago (USA) is home to much traffic and color, and two retired men from the Navy living in Chicago, Amlan/Marcus Satan are brothers, unidentical twins, who're secretly frustrated with bureaucratic life since leaving the Navy. The 'Satan twins' are popular in Chicago and respected and manage a comic book store in the iconic US city!

AMLAN: Working in the Navy was exciting and exotic, as we're stationed abroad.

MARCUS: This was work no one really forgets, and we're just looking for post-Navy sanity-life!

The Satan twins' comic-book store in the Windy City of Chicago (USA) is very charming and features a decent collection of Harley Quinn comics (DC) and Spider-Man origins stories (Marvel) as well as many classic/modern action-figures for kids (e.g., Turbo-Man, SpiderWoman, Livewire, etc.). The Satan twins feel this venture into the world of 'pedestrian consumerism' nicely captures their post-Navy Chicago interests in normal everyday life and work, but they're secretly a tad bored with the tax-payer's life following Navy retirement!

AMLAN: I'm making a nice batch of colored Easter eggs for my new girlfriend, Alisha.

MARCUS: Well, it seems you're getting along in life now, bro; Alisha's gorgeous; maybe your depression eggs.

Alisha is a gorgeous African-American Catholic woman working at the U-Chicago anthropology department as an assistant professor. She's studied the urban impact of growing up ethnic/minority and how it shapes 'adult-world micro-community governance' imagination in modern-day USA. Needless to say, Alisha's very bright, and Amlan believes she'll give this post-Navy life the 'right stuff' of energy-jolt to get over his antisocial depression.

AMLAN: We're robbing the Chicago bank safe-box with pirate blood-diamonds of Baron Goldfinger; swapping gems with toys!

MARCUS: If this is your 'great-escape' plan for us with Alisha (make loot and run to Fiji), I hope you studied the actual bank!

The 'Satan twins' of Chicago have opted to 'drop-out' of sane-life in the Windy City and costumed/masked up for this daring/dark 'blood-diamond' bank safe-box heist and intend to use water-guns filled with acid to burn a hole into Baron Goldfinger's bank-box and take his controversial pirate-gems and leave behind toys for a creative/veiling 'media' message.

AMLAN: Let's just say the 'creative gear' of this bank-operation is all about the honor of 'dead presidents' in America.

MARCUS: Dead presidents, images of ex/deceased American presidents on American money-bills, inspires this dance, eh?

They've been escorted inside the bank safe-box area with Goldfinger's blood-diamonds (from Sierra Leone conflict-zone mining!). They explain to the escorting guardsman that they'd explained to the bank manager already this is a theater-performance media-feather involving just taking iPhone-photos of Goldfinger's box for a street-performance about 'barons with money' but then reveal their water-guns are filled with acid and instruct the guardsman to dance in front of the security camera while they swap Goldfinger's pirate-diamonds with little cereal-box novelty toys and some toy gems. They then give the guardsman a note (to present to the media) which read, "Goldfinger can't hide toys from the world-dollar!" before they sneak out the bank-bathroom window with the Goldfinger gems from the bank safe-box hidden in the soles of their shoes.

AMLAN: Looks like the Chicago subway's primed for our nifty hop onto the tunnel-rails for the Interpol-exchange station.

MARCUS: It's cool we found that Interpol-man to coordinate this 'commission-heist' for blood-diamond inquiry-work in DC!

So, the Satan twins (Amlan/Marcus) manage to perform a special personal vindication 'Robin Hood' heist with Interpol-query relevance regarding blood-diamond trafficking and therefore 'keep' their post-Navy sense of dignity while also concurrently performing a 'dark escape' ritual meant to forget the life of war and seek a paradise-life in Fiji with Alisha (Amlan's fiancee) and manage a tourist-bar with carrom-board play (a wooden finger-striking Eastern rendition of billiards)!

Years later, Amlan/Marcus read (from Fiji) a news-story about how blood-diamond queries/operations have induced the rise of a dark urban crime-gang called Red Hood making city-fires/riots while performing bank vandalism, and they're simply grateful to be in the islands and drinking and not thinking about the 'general human siege' of socialized...distancing.

AMLAN: Let's watch Dead Presidents with Alisha.

MARCUS: Excellent film, bro; I'll get the Pina Colada thermoses.

This was an offbeat American 'street-story' about wrought daydreams in lives of complication, arguably reflecting post-service (army/navy) depression, the 'medical feeling' of escapism from the modern world, the sad complexity of human emotions, and the dangers behind seeking true love in conditions of 'negotiable' distancing. Hopefully, the Satan twins will not become some statistic...

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)