However, they are avoiding Acebos' calls until they locate their former comrades and convince them to participate. Danny and a fellow paratrooper, Jimmy Foster, have worked out a detailed plan for putting Acebos' idea into action that requires carefully timed, military precision. Acebos hopes that Danny will reassemble his highly trained commando unit to participate in a heist that will make them millionaires.
In Beverly Hills, around Christmastime, excitable racketeer Spyros Acebos is waiting to hear from former sergeant Danny Ocean, who led the heroic 82nd Airborne unit of paratroopers during World War II.