diff --git a/data/scripts/fetch_faster_rcnn_models.sh b/data/scripts/fetch_faster_rcnn_models.sh
index 019771dd3..976011069 100755
--- a/data/scripts/fetch_faster_rcnn_models.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/fetch_faster_rcnn_models.sh
@@ -7,28 +7,23 @@ FILE=faster_rcnn_models.tgz
 URL=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rbg/faster-rcnn-data/$FILE
 CHECKSUM=ac116844f66aefe29587214272054668
 
-if [ -f $FILE ]; then
-  echo "File already exists. Checking md5..."
-  os=`uname -s`
-  if [ "$os" = "Linux" ]; then
-    checksum=`md5sum $FILE | awk '{ print $1 }'`
-  elif [ "$os" = "Darwin" ]; then
-    checksum=`cat $FILE | md5`
-  fi
-  if [ "$checksum" = "$CHECKSUM" ]; then
-    echo "Checksum is correct. No need to download."
-    exit 0
-  else
-    echo "Checksum is incorrect. Need to download again."
-  fi
-fi
-
 echo "Downloading Faster R-CNN demo models (695M)..."
 
-wget $URL -O $FILE
+wget -c $URL && echo "Unzipping..." && tar zxvf $FILE
 
-echo "Unzipping..."
+echo "Done."
+
+os=`uname -s`
+if [ "$os" = "Linux" ]; then
+  checksum=`md5sum $FILE | awk '{ print $1 }'`
+elif [ "$os" = "Darwin" ]; then
+  checksum=`cat $FILE | md5`
+fi
 
-tar zxvf $FILE
+if [ "$checksum" = "$CHECKSUM" ]; then
+  echo "Checksum is correct. No need to download again."
+  exit 0
+else
+  echo "Checksum is incorrect. Need to download again."
+fi 
 
-echo "Done. Please run this command again to verify that checksum = $CHECKSUM."