Gwendoline Starr/Biography

The following is Gwendoline Starr's full biography.

## Early life

When Gwen was a child, she viewed her father's work as theft and picked up a taste for thievery herself. When she was six she stole her first watch, then at sixteen, her first car. When she was seventeen she robbed Banque PCU and was issued a Red Notice by Interpol. At this point she had left home and joined up with a gang of other rich kids who had left their parents. It was with this group that she met Alexis Broschini when she was nineteen, with whom she formed a relationship. Alexis would eventually change his name to Brad Cage, and the two would start a heist crew. They robbed five banks in a four year period and became Interpol's most wanted before setting their sights on Hans Wagner's masterpiece safes.

## Recruiting Sebastian

When the Las Vegas outbreak sent the world into a panic, Bly Tanaka scheduled the decommissioning of three of his Hans Wagner Ring Cycle safes. Catching wind of this, Gwen sought a new safecracker for her heist team in the hopes that they could crack those master safes. She found Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert's YouTube videos on exactly that topic: Hans Wagner and safecracking. He was a passionate fan of both Wagner's work and safecracking in general, so Gwen decided to put his skills to the test. She commented on his video, inviting him to a house at the end of Leipziger Str. to see his safecracking for herself. She entered him into a safecracking tournament, where he nervously participated. His passion was not just for show, as he won the tournament, embarrassing the reigning champion in the process.

She decided to approach Sebastian face to face. Having followed him and learning his schedule, she pickpocketed three patrons of Kommer, Sebastian's local coffee shop, and met with him. She showed him her exploits and explained who she was, what her role in the tournament was, and what she wanted from him. Sebastian was hesitant, but later showed up at the address she had given him, ready to crack the Ring Cycle.

## Rheingold heist

Sebastian arrived at the door, where Gwen invited him in. She introduced him to Korina Dominguez, their master hacker; Rolph, their getaway driver; and Brad Cage, the so-called action hero. Korina explained the broad plan for the three days of heists that would follow, and the team set out almost immediately. The first target was the Rheingold: Hans Wagner's first Ring Cycle safe, and both the simplest to crack and least guarded. Sebastian was to enter the bathroom of the credit union in Paris where the Rheingold would be found and wait for Gwen to sneak him into the vault. Gwen would ask to see a safe deposit box to allow her deeper into the building after stealing the guard's keys.

After the two were in place, Korina created a distraction that allowed Gwen to pick up Sebastian and bring him to the vault where he got to work on his first Wagner. He was able to crack it, so he and Gwen filled their bags with money. Brad entered the building to create a second distraction, and Gwen and Sebastian left with the cash. They returned to their hideout and had a small party to celebrate. Gwen became angry at Brad and secluded herself upstairs. Sebastian later brought her water, and they ended up talking all evening.

## Valkyrie heist

The target for the next day was the Valkyrie, housed in NPIB Prague. This time Korina would support Sebastian and Gwen by electronically guiding them through the bank's security protocols. During this process, Sebastian's apparent disappearance between cameras was noted by security.

Sebastian and Gwen reunited at the elevator to the Valkyrie vault, and at the bottom they were met with armed guards. Gwen fought them off and bound them, then Sebastian got to work on the safe. The process was made longer by a minor slipup that put the safe in a warning state, meanwhile the guards continued looking into Sebastian's disappearance in their recordings and noticed he'd merely pretended to unlock a door. They realized someone must be in their system to unlock it for him, indirectly detecting Korina's presence, and issued a soft lockdown until they could investigate. Seeing this on her computer, Korina relayed the lockdown to Brad, who launched "plan B" - a traditional bank robbery as a distraction. He donned a mask, knocked out several guards with tranquilizer darts, and began to order patrons and tellers around to fill a bag with cash. Sebastian managed to crack the safe, and he and Gwen used the chaos of Brad's robbery to flee with the other bank patrons. Brad made it to the van and Rolph started it up. Gwen and Sebastian were not far behind, so Brad helped Gwen into the moving vehicle. When it was Sebastian's turn, Brad threw him back into the street.

The Czech police were quickly swarming the area, so Rolph lost them and they left town. Gwen became furious with Brad over Sebastian's unceremonious ejection and decided she would leave the group as well. Korina followed, and they headed back to Sebastian's apartment, where they broke in and waited for him to return home. When he did arrive, he was surprised to find them there. They convinced him their adventure wasn't over, and the trio planned the final heist without the other two.

## Siegfried heist

The final safe that the trio would face was the Siegfried, located in the St. Moritz Bly. This was the final day: the day the safes were to be taken to Geneva, so the plan involved stealing the entire safe instead of breaking into the casino. Korina called the bank posing as an Interpol agent to inform them that the safe might be in jeopardy. The casino agreed to move up the time of departure to 3:30 A.M. to throw off any criminal plans, for which the heist team was prepared. Sebastian and Gwen stole the SBQ armored truck that was going to pick up the safe and picked it up themselves. They headed toward their escape route while Korina stayed behind to mislead Vincent Delacroix's Interpol team. When she was captured, she sent one final text to Gwen, telling her to run.

Gwen sped up the truck while Sebastian worked on the safe in the back, and he eventually managed to crack it. They stopped the truck and began loading the cash into bags, when Brad and Rolph pulled up behind them. Brad held them at gunpoint in a misguided attempt to get Gwen back, then attempted to shoot Sebastian. Gwen had already removed the firing pin, so she pulled one of the truck guard's guns on Brad and Rolph and tethered the two of them to the truck, taking their car for their getaway.

They arrived at the pier where their boat was waiting, and Sebastian told Gwen of his feelings for her. She reciprocated, and they prepared the boat, when suddenly Delacroix appeared behind them. He pointed his gun at them, while Gwen pointed hers at him. She offered him one of their backpacks of cash to let them walk away, but Delacroix was only interested in arresting her. Realizing there was no way out for her, she instead told him that she would allow herself to be arrested if Sebastian was set free. Neither Delacroix nor Sebastian were up for this, but Gwen convinced Sebastian by asking him to wait for her, and they could find the Götterdämmerung, the final safe in Hans Wagner's Ring Cycle, together after her eventual release. Meanwhile, she convinced Delacroix by pointing out that she was the wanted criminal; she was the one he'd been hunting for so long, and his best case scenario was letting Sebastian go. So he did. Sebastian took the boat out while Gwen stayed behind and surrendered to Delacroix.

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## References

Shay Hatten (writer) & Matthias Schweighöfer (director) (October 29, 2021). *Army of Thieves*.
Shay Hatten, Zack Snyder, Joby Harold (writers) & Zack Snyder (director) (May 14, 2021). *Army of the Dead*.