What was the purpose of asking to store diamonds for only 24 hours in Benedict's vault?
In Ocean's 11, an accomplice of the robbery requests to store "diamonds" inside Mr. Benedict's vault. But for some reason he only asks to store them for 24 hours.
What could possibly have been the point in doing that? Couldn't he at least ask to store them for a few years or something? Shouldn't it have been extremely suspicious? It made no sense when rewatching the movie.
Best Answer
Benedict's vault is for storing Casino funds, not for long-term storage of whatever valuables people might want to put in there. He may be willing to store certain things for certain people, but only in the short term. As a gesture of kindness to the big whales that bring in lots of money to gamble with.
In actual fact, asking to store them for a long time is what would have been suspicious. As a "prominent businessman," Mr Zerga should have no trouble finding a proper bank or other secure facility who's actual job it is to store people's valuables, if he wanted to store them somewhere for a long time. Asking a casino manager to store them in the casino's vault (which is NOT its official purpose) is asking a favour, so he needs a reason that explains why he's doing this instead of going to a real bank - such as he won't be in town for long and only needs someplace safe to put them for a short time, so dealing with a bank and all their paperwork would be more hassle than he'd prefer to engage in.
As Wildcard points out below, the 24-hour limit was actually Benedict's limit, not "Zerga's." The point still remains, though, that Zerga would be acting suspiciously if he tried to insist on storing them longer.
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I believe that Benedict was the one said that he can help Mr. Lymon Zerga but he can keep the diamonds no longer than 24 hours.not Benedict. Benedict did that as a favor for Mr. Zerga. Of course he didn't know that Zerga is a accomplice of Danny Ocean.
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