Diksha Sundriyal
A heartbreaking betrayal sends a woman running for her life in Apple TV+’s ‘Lucky.’ The character in question is Luciana “Lucky” Armstrong, who is introduced to the audience while on the run from an FBI agent, who, after a brief chase, has her at gunpoint. To give us context of this chase, the clock is turned back a day, where we see Lucky with her spouse, Cary, at a hotel in Vegas. They have a bag of cash, and while he looks forward to a new beginning, her instincts tell her something is off.
He tells her to silence the voice of doubt, assures her everything will be alright, and then takes her to the casino, where they happily spend some of the cash at their disposal. They end the night on the rooftop, drinking champagne, and cheering to a new life in some other country, now that they won’t be able to live in America anymore. They have six hours before they board a cargo ship bound for a new life. The next day, Lucky wakes up to a splitting headache and an empty bed. It turns out Cary left without her, and now, she has the FBI and the people they stole the money from hunting her. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Lucky Goes on the Run
As soon as Lucky realizes Cary is gone, she knows she must disappear as soon as possible. However, by the time she leaves her room, FBI Agent Billie Rand has arrived at the casino with the cavalry. Meanwhile, news of a couple running away with $10 million in cash from the money that the FBI was investigating in a mob-related biodiesel scheme breaks on the news. Her and Cary’s photo is on every screen, and the feds are all around the casino. Agent Rand doesn’t waste time. She sends one agent to scour the CCTV footage, and the other to go around knocking on every door in the hotel to find the couple. They eventually find her room, and by the state of things, Rand can tell that Cary left with the money while Lucky left in a hurry.
Meanwhile, Lucky manages to get by the front door, but after taking a few steps out to what could have been her freedom, she notes a man in the crowd looking at her. The sight of him makes her turn right back in, suggesting that she’d rather get caught by the FBI than him. Later, when Agent Rand looks at the footage and sees the man, she recognizes him as Dutch, who works for Priscilla, and the fed reiterates that they had better find Lucky before he does. Lucky makes her way to the docks, where one truck is ready to move out. She quickly dips into her makeup to make it look like she has a shiner. She goes crying to the driver, asking for his help in escaping her angry and violent boyfriend. The driver takes pity on her and gets her away from the casino.
Agent Rand and her team arrive at the docks barely a minute later, but it is clear that Lucky is gone. Rand knows she will try to leave by bus because that is the most inconspicuous way to do so, so she has cops looking for her at every bus station and getting a list of all the bus stops that could be her possible drop-off points. She turns out to be right as Lucky, who has cut off and bleached her long, red hair, finds a bus. She notices the cops all around but still manages to board a bus, which is the first to leave the scene. As the glitz of Vegas disappears in her rear-view mirror, she relaxes, not knowing that Dutch spotted her and is now following the bus.
Lucky Finds Help in an Unexpected Place
A flashback reveals that the original thief was her father, John, who is currently serving time in prison. Over the years, he stole money from the top of his boss, Priscilla, hoping no one would notice. He ended up setting $10 million aside, which he hoped would come in handy for him and his daughter in starting a new life somewhere else. But now the situation is dire: the people he stole from are looking for the money, which means they will come for Lucky since they can’t get to John. There is a very small window in which his daughter should get the money and get as far away with it as possible. While she is not happy about her father putting her in danger, she knows what she must do. In the present day, the bus takes a pit stop, and Lucky gets a sandwich.
She hasn’t even finished it when an FBI agent spots her, which brings us to the opening scene. Just when the agent has her at gunpoint, a car appears out of nowhere and hits him. Lucky is shoved inside and comes face to face with Priscilla, from whom John stole the money, and who is also Cary’s mother. It’s clear she and Lucky don’t like each other very much. When Lucky doesn’t tell her anything about Cary or the money’s location, she is thrown into the trunk of the other car. Knowing that she is going to get killed, Lucky uses everything at her disposal to get out of the trunk, into the backseat, attack the two men in the front, crash the car, kill the man who chases after her, and make it out alive.
A flashback shows Cary and Lucky singing happily in the car, entering John’s storage space, shoving the money into the bag, and leaving together. Now, she walks the desert alone and injured. She eventually finds a house in the middle of nowhere, saving two girls from almost getting attacked by a rattlesnake. Their grandma comes out with a gun, and initially thinks about sending Lucky on her way, but then changes her mind. Lucky tells her that she is running from an abusive ex, who is a cop. The woman tells her how she lost her own daughter to such a situation and tells Lucky to stand up for herself. Lucky cleans herself up and later has dinner with the family, and doesn’t pick up the call from her father, which the woman thinks is from her abusive partner.
Priscilla Tracks Down Cary
Priscilla, who herself is fresh out of prison, visits John, asking him to tell her daughter to cooperate and give the money back or die. John, however, has more faith in Lucky’s survival skills. At the scene of the crash, Rand figures out exactly what happened to the dead men, the car, and Lucky. She also correctly assumes that John stole the money and sent his daughter to get it, who is now in the crosshairs of Priscilla and Wayne, the main villains and Rand’s true targets. Although she is on the right track, she is advised not to let her personal vendetta interfere with her job. Meanwhile, Priscilla goes to a car rental company to track down Cary’s car, which appears to be at a mall in Long Beach. In the car, she finds a week’s worth of mess and an address.
When Priscilla reaches the address, she finds a man named Noah, who claims he has never heard of Cary. So, she shoots him in the leg and has him taken away. Later, she goes to see Wayne, who knows she wants more time, which he is not willing to give. It turns out that he had about half a billion dollars that she was supposed to launder for him, and that’s where John stole the ten million from. Now, Wayne wants the money, and, after almost choking her to death, he makes it clear that he won’t be forgiving her son either. Meanwhile, Dutch looks at the crash site from a distance and wonders how such a small person can cause such a big mess.
Lucky Makes a Bold Move
Dutch notes that Lucky couldn’t have gone far on foot, so he looks at the map and locates a house he knows she would have gone to. In the meantime, dinner is over, and Lucky is ready to leave. But Agent Rand shows up at the door. The woman tries to send the fed on her way, but Rand is more perceptive. She comes inside under the pretense of getting water and notices four dishes on the drying rack, even though there are only three people in the house. She warns the woman about how dangerous Lucky is, all while Lucky hides in the girls’ bedroom. The woman realizes she has made a mistake by allowing Rand to look around her house, but Lucky manages to escape.
She’d already nipped the car keys, she also found some cash, and then made a run for it. At the same time, Dutch is driving towards the woman’s house, but when he hears Lucky’s car being identified on the radio, he turns around. He finds her car at a gas station, where he almost catches her after buying a lottery ticket. But as resourceful as ever, Lucky manages to run away and hide. She remembers her father’s tip about how to play people and always be in control. She knows she cannot run too far without the cops catching her, so she slips into the back of Dutch’s truck, who drives with no idea the woman he is looking for is right under his nose.
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