It is established that he and Frank are now friends, and Tarconi goes as far as to lie to the police to cover for Frank. Inspector Tarconi plays an even more prominent role in this film. Frank debuts the Audi A8 W12 in this film. The crane catches the bomb and Martin escapes unharmed. Martin is forced to remove a bomb from the bottom of his car by executing an aerial corkscrew maneuver underneath a crane. Eventually, Martin unravels a scheme involving biological weapons and the nefarious Gianni Chellini. When the boy is kidnapped, Frank must again take action in order to protect his young "package" and his family. Martin bonds with their young son, whom he drives to school every day. Incidentally, although two slave containers are identified, Martin only recovers one at the end of the film.įrank is working as the driver/chauffeur for a wealthy family, in the United States. Initially, Tarconi is assigned to investigate the path of destruction that Martin is leaving but ends up aiding in the recovery of the containers full of human slaves. Martin is aided by a French Police inspector named Tarconi. After lots of action, and with the inspector's help, Frank succeeds in an attempt to retrieve a truck full of immigrants. Lai then explains that there is a shipping container full of people. However, this works to their advantage, as they manage to discover the whereabouts of Wall Street while at the police station. The next morning at Frank's house, an inspector turns up and questions their story. Frank injures many of Wall Street's henchmen and steals a car containing Lai. Initially, Frank simply delivers the package, however when Wall Street attempts to kill Frank, Frank returns to the delivery site. Breaking one of his rules, Frank opens the package: it reveals a tied-up and gagged woman by the name of Lai. In the first movie, Frank is hired to deliver a package to an American gangster known only as Wall Street. However he did manage to attract the suspicions of the police in France, where he had been living quietly in an old place on the coast. In The Transporter, Frank Martin is shown to have received the Bronze Star medal of honor.įrank has already established a good reputation in his secondary, secretive line of work, all the while maintaining an apparently legitimate life. His country of origin is unclear - throughout the franchise, Statham seems to speak with a "mid-Atlantic" accent, mixing his own Estuary English accent with a European and also with perhaps a generic Appalachian American accent, suggesting he could be European, British or American, but who may have spent considerable time in another country.
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