Navy Seal Demetri Papadapoulis is a proud strip club owner who gets in over his head on a $235,000 poker debt with the local River Gambling Cruise. A small group of Wiseguys send Demetri on a no way out suicide hit in exchange to wipe his debt clean by killing a ruthless Yakuza in Tampa called the Japanese Bookie.

In this rotoscope animation, Tom Waits sings about "The One That Got Away."

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.