The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Lew Temple as Ned
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- The Dion Waiters Award is a category of one this time and could be renamed the Ned Award; T.J. Miller is raised but passed over.
- Ned gets three scenes, including the most important moment and a funny diner moment; Lew Temple crushes the role.
- It is a Tony Scott motif: a minor character grows and saves the day, as Vossler fixing the radio does in Crimson Tide.
- Ned's mission is kept hidden; viewers see only cutaways of him driving until they realize he is racing to outrun the train.