The plan suffered another setback when Girard stayed behind instead of leaving as usual after this task was completed, unable to reach his house due to construction.  McKeon volunteered to drive him home after counting the second van, and Girard went to sleep meanwhile. While the manager was dealing with the relevant bureaucracy, Gerena told him that his .38 gun was falling off his holster (originally borrowed from Gerena himself) and shortly afterwards used this as a distraction to extract the weapon from the broken holder. While held at gunpoint, McKeon chose to follow orders, while Girard assumed that it was a joke and did not realize it was serious initially, which prevented him from drawing the weapon fast enough to react in time. Aware of this, the manager asked him not to draw the weapon to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. Girard dropped to the floor while McKeon placed his hands behind his back and was handcuffed. Gerena bound both with tape and rope, taped and placed jackets over their heads before injecting both with a solution that was meant to make them feel drowsy but which failed to act after being diluted in two doses instead of the planned single shot. Gerena apologized for the assault and moved the manager away from the vault door, systematically selecting which money to remove from it, leaving behind coins and most uncirculated currency.   Girard and McKeon noted that he removed the car's backup wheel and made several trips with a cart that he would use to move the money from the vault to it, until $7,017,152 were loaded. Aware that the sedative had failed, he made several checks on the status of his coworkers.