Chili Palmer.
Chili, this is Karen Flores.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
How'd you get in the house?
Hejust told me an idea for a movie.
It's not bad so far.
Sit down, have a drink. Tell Karen.
See what she thinks.
Maybe you didn't hear me.
I came in the back door.
-You broke in.
-It was open. Wasn't locked.
-What if it were?
-Want to hear the idea?
It's about a dry cleaner that scams
the airline out of 300 grand.
Tell her.
Well, it's simple.
Basically, it's about a guy
who owes a shylock $1 5,000...
and he's three weeks over
on the vig.
The interest you have to pay.
I know.
Anyway, this dry cleaner--
Let's call him Leo.
He's scared. He doesn't know
any better. He leaves town.
So Leo gets on aplane,
but the plane sits there. Doesn 't move.
They announce there's some kind
of mechanical problem.
They'll be there maybe an hour...
but keep yourseats,
in case they fix itsooner.
The guy's in no shape
to sit there, sweat it out.
So he gets offthe plane.
He goes to the cocktail lounge
and starts throwing them down,
one after the other.
ln fact, he's still in the lounge
when the plane crashes on takeoff.
When the guy finds out it was
his flight, he can't believe it.
If he had stayed on the plane,
he'd be dead.
He knows his luck has changed.
If everybody thinks he's dead, he won't
have to pay back the 1 5 or the vig.
Keep going.
Come on.
Since Leo's name was
on the passenger list...
they bring his wife
out to the airport.
They're going through personal effects,
whatever wasn 't burned up.
Leo's bags were on the plane.
The wife tells them what to look for--
things that only she would
know about.
My Leo!
A couple days go by.
The airline people visit his wife.
They tell her they're sorry their plane
exploded and offer her a settlement.
The amount based on what he would
have earned for the rest of his life.
How much is she offered?
300 grand. So they take it.
Money in their hand, babe.
He gets his wife
to cash the check...
and he takes off for Vegas
with the dough.
He gets there.
He's supposed to call her...
to let her know
when to come out.
She never hears from him again,
but he's hot.
He runs the 300 grand
up to half a million.
-He comes to L.A.--
-But he's going nuts...
because he's winning,
and he can't say who he is.
So we show in a back story
his motivation, his desire to be famous.
He's got the dough
to buy his way in...
mix with the celebs,
and he can't resist...
so he comes to L.A.
I don't know about the mixing
with the celebrities.
That was something new
that wasjust added.
But, yeah,
he comes to L.A. and...
I don't know
what happens after that.
What? That's it?
That's your movie?
I said that I had
an idea for a movie.
That's halfa movie
with holes in it.
There's maybe 40 minutes
of screen time.
You don't have a girl,
a female lead.
On top of that, you don't have
anybody to sympathize with.
-You don't have a good guy.
-The shylock is a good guy.
The shylock is barely mentioned...
and it's not believable the wife
would get a settlement that fast.
Harry doesn't realize
it's a true story.
That Miami flight that went down?
It was on the news every day for a week.
Harry must've been busy.
-That's where you got the idea?
-Part of it, yeah.
Wait a minute. You're not the guy?
The dry cleaner?
Leo.
You wouldn't be talking to me
if you were.
-No, I'm not the guy, Harry.
-But you work for the casino?
For God's sake, Harry,
he's the shylock.
That's what you do for a living?
That's what I did until recently.
After I'm done here,
I don't know what I'll do next.
I got an early call.
No problem, babe.
Go on up to bed.
I'm saying that I would like you
and your new buddy to get out of my house.
Oh, yeah.
Well, sure.
It was absolutely a pleasure
to meet you, Karen.
I guess in your line of work
there's times you have to get rough.
You know, in case
one of your customers don't pay?
They always pay.
You