![]() Ronald flees the city with Vanessa, but when they leave the main road to avoid a potential pursuer, she kills him and claims the money for herself. Watkins and his men are stopped outside the hotel by Detective Finney and his men, but he bribes the detective with $50,000 of the Naismith money to let them leave with Curt. ![]() Ronald is allowed to leave with the $375,000, but Watkins takes Curt away at gunpoint. Big leaves, Curt and Ronald attempt to split the money but are interrupted by Watkins and his men, who have already retrieved the $125,000 from Naismith. The document is revealed to be plans for a catalytic converter, seeking to conceal its existence from public knowledge and avoid governmental pressure on the car companies to implement pollution controls.Īfter Mr. Big" at a downtown hotel, who is willing to pay $375,000 to retrieve the document. Curt and Ronald meet with arrogant automobile industry executive "Mr. Seeking a bigger payday, Ronald and Curt return to Matt's boss and extract the name of the document's owner. Frank escapes, but when he returns home, a battered Vanessa shoots and kills him. Curt calls the contact, Naismith, who works for Studebaker Automobiles, and arranges to sell him the document for $125,000. Frank flees, only to be caught by Curt and Ronald who extract the name of his contact. Frank attempts to use Doug to kill Curt and Ronald, resulting in Doug's death. Curt deduces that the value of the document vastly exceeds the amount they considered it was worth. Curt makes further arrangements with mob leader Aldrick Watkins, to take part of the eventual payment in order to clear Curt with Watkins, with whom he is on the outs.ĭoug, Curt and Ronald have a meeting with Frank. Curt and Ronald discover they have a high bounty placed on their heads, and make plans to ascertain what the document is worth by arranging a meeting with Frank Capelli, the mob leader who contracted the blackmail scheme and with whose wife, Vanessa, Ronald is having an affair. Once the police leave, Curt, Ronald and Matt go to Matt's boss' house and retrieve the real document, which turns out to be plans for a new car part. The police detective, Joe Finney, is skeptical of the family's story. Instead, Curt and Ronald leave after Curt instructs the family to tell the police that Charley was alone and that Matt killed Charley in self defense. He orders Curt to kill the family and Ronald. Not wanting to be part of a massacre, Curt shoots and kills Charley.ĭoug phones the house, having discovered the documents are fake. A desperate Matt brings fake documents to Doug, then returns home where Charley prepares to execute the entire family, to the surprise of Curt and Ronald. The recruiter, Doug Jones, sends them to the house of an accountant, Matt, where they are to hold the family hostage while sending Matt to the office where he works, to retrieve a document from his boss' safe but finds it empty. In 1950s Detroit, gangster Curt Goynes, in need of cash to leave town, is recruited to threaten a family as part of a blackmail scheme, along with gangsters Ronald and Charley.
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