Plot

This is the story of a bag of money and the people who come into contact with it.

Can you trust anyone? A corrupt judge is about to rule against the expansion of an Indian casino in the Mohave and needs cover: he tells the tribe's chief that the FBI has an undercover agent on the judge's staff, so the expansion must be on hold. The chief hires a hit man to kill the law clerk. The clerk makes a run for it and manages through a series of botched thefts to end up with the bag of money meant for the hit man. A corrupt cop, a degenerate security guard, a hapless bus station clerk, a scheming waitress, and the hit man himself all want the bag - and the chief and the judge want the clerk dead. Is there any way he gets out of the desert alive?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

A Judge will soon be ruling on the case of the expansion request by the Native American owned and operated Devil's Playground Casino located in the Mojave Desert. Despite the technical evidence to support the expansion - a fact pointed out to him by one of his clerks (hereafter referred to as the "Drifter") - the Judge will be ruling against it solely because of the payola he is receiving from the Las Vegas lobby against it. As such, the Judge decides to tell the band Chief that he has learned that the Drifter is truly an FBI undercover agent, and as he has no power against the FBI, the only solution to solve the problem is to eliminate the Drifter. As the Drifter's girlfriend is murdered in the process of the Chief's men trying to "solve the problem", the Chief decides to hire a Hitman to finish the job, as the Drifter is now on the run on the assumption that he may be the next target for whatever reason. The payment given to the Hitman is in a black duffel bag with the casino's distinctive logo and a red pine car air freshener on the bag. Several people become aware of the bag with the money, they all, with a little larceny or greed in their hearts, trying to abscond with the money. They include: the Drifter himself; a perverted casino Security Guard who is more interested in spying on the women in the restroom via the security camera than doing his job; a masochistic Cop from a nearby town; a down on her luck diner Waitress; and an outwardly slow bus depot Ticket Clerk. Thrown into the mix is the local no nonsense Sheriff who is only investigating the report of stolen money. As they all try to get their hands on the bag with the money, the motivation for some may turn from greed to revenge and justice.—Huggo

A corrupt reservation judge -- a fat, white man -- who is presiding over the expansion of a poor tribal desert casino feels threatened when his niave clerk begins asking questions about the court's handling of the native americans' property rights. Snitching his clerk out to the Tribal Chief for being an FBI informant, the judge ignites the fuse of a professional hit leading to greed and betrayal that daisy chains through the remote desert community, starting with the murder of an innocent young women in the wrong place and culminating in an ironic justice for all. On the way, you may recognize many familiar actors in roles very uncharacteristic of their usual fare. "Sometimes, you ask for what you get in life. Other times, it gets handed to you. All you can hope for is that you do the right thing."