- "You know I can't let you two go. I ain't made that way. The way I see it, you've earned yourselves 24 hours. The money stays, though. If I were you, I'd use the time. Make peace with whatever demons you got left. Cause come tomorrow, I will find you."
- ―Luke Hobbs
The Vault Heist was a successful heist undertaken by Dominic Toretto's Crew in Rio to steal $100 million from corrupt businessman and drug kingpin Hernan Reyes. Unbeknownst to them, Hernan's son, Dante Reyes was also involved and vowed revenge on the Dom and his crew, putting his plans in action a decade afterwards.
Background[]
Following the failure of Zizi and his men to kill Dominic Toretto, his crew and DSS agent Luke Hobbs under the orders of Hernan Reyes. Dominic decided to finish the job of stealing Reyes's money despite his crew telling him that Reyes's had extra security at the police station as a trap, not to mention Vince dying from his wounds after Zizi's attack and Elena Neves advising him to escape Rio. But Dom decided to continue the job. Hobbs decided to put his assignment aside to help Dom to get revenge on Reyes due to his team also being killed in Zizi's attack.
Heist[]
Luke and Elena in their GURKHA Armored Vehicle followed by Dom and Brian O'Conner each in their dodge chargers break into the police station despite the military police shooting at them. Luke and Elena break down the wall of the room where the vault containing the money is. While Hobbs and Elena hold of the attacking police force, Dom and Brian attach the their car harnesses to the vault and pull it out of the room and drag it out of the station. João Alemeida alerts Reyes and Zizi and attempts to stop them but was held at gunpoint by Hobbs and Elena.
Navigated by Mia Toretto, Dom and Brian dragged the vault throughout Rio while being chased by all corrupt cops on Reyes' payroll. During the chase, they destroy cars, property, avoid spikes set by the cops, and even destroy a bank with the vault. They attempt to take an alley as an exit but they end destroying a few cops and their cars with the vault. They get chased by cops in motorcycles. Another big group of cops chases them. But they manage to take them down by destroying which causes the cop's cars to crash. Brian and Dom are chased by the other cops with some shooting at them but they cause some of them to crash. Roman Pearce and Han Seoul-Oh infiltrates' the cops in their stolen police cars and they take them down by making them crash their cars. After Roman and Han leave, Dom and Brian secretly have the vault put into a disguise garbage truck driven by Gisele Yashar, Rico Santos and Tego Leo and replace it with a fake vault before heading for the bridge.
On the bridge, Dom and Brian are chased by another army of cops lead by Reyes and Zizi. During the chase, Dom decides to keep up with the chase while letting Brian get away despite Brian and Mia trying to convince him not to. He has Brian's car unattached from the vault before turning around and confronting the army, using supercharge to his advantage. He takes out all of the cops with the vault before confronting Reyes and his remaining men, who attempt to shoot him down with machine gun, but Dom kills Reyes's men with the vault by crashing it onto their cars while Dom gets out of his car when the vault crash causes the car to fly into the air which crashes into Reyes's car with Reyes and Zizi in it. As Dom looks on, Zizi gets out and attempts to kill Dom but Brian returns and shoots Zizi dead. Hobbs and Elena arrive with an injured Reyes crawling out of his car. Reyes begs to be helped but Hobbs instead killed him for the ambush that killed his team. While Hobbs tells Dom and Brian that he won't let them go, he gives them a 24 hour head start on the condition they leave the vault, but declares he would find them. After they leave, Hobbs finds out they replaced the vault during the chase, but doesn't pursue them.
Aftermath[]
Tej Parker used Reyes' handprint to open the vault gaining the money and most of the Toretto crew went off to live their lives in countries without extradition treaties with the United States, while the team gave Vince's share to his widow Rosa and their son Nico. Rico and Leo used their money at a casino in Monte Carlo, Roman and Tej used their cut to gain cars and girls, Han and Gisele use their cut to start a new life, while Dom and Brian use their cuts to gain a new home and life for Mia and Elena.
Unaware to the crew, Hernan's son, Dante was involved in the vault chase until he was knocked off the bridge, although he survived. After witnessing the destruction of his family's criminal empire, the loss of the money, and his chance at having a family, he spent the next decade planning revenge against Dom and his family for the heist. Aimes provided Dante with all information through Agency equipment about Dom and his crew, plotting step by step in an exact fashion on how to kill them all one by one; and the two became business partners. Following Hernan's death, his remaining properties and assets were sold, with Dante gaining some of them.