Pawn is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by David A. Armstrong in his directorial debut and written by Jerome Anthony white.

[2] An old gangster, with a hard drive containing records of who he paid off, is targeted by a competition between dirty cops, internal affairs, etc.

The dirty cops hire a thug to get into the safe (in the back of a diner) at midnight.

He brings his friends and is too early for the time-release lock.

The shooting ensues and during hostage negotiations the thug tries to put the blame onto an ex-con who just got out of jail, so that no one notices the real target is the hard drive.