A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined.
A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined. The investigation of a life time.
At a bar in Los Angeles, Jimmy Jayne (Devon Sawa), a reformed con man-turned-tattoo artist, is drinking when he is approached by Star (Irina Antonenka), an attractive hooker. He turns her down, only to offer her a job as a secretary at his tattoo parlor. He gives her a lighter too with the name of his shop, "Gasoline Alley," and his name, "Jimmy Jayne," engraved on it.The next day, two LAPD detectives arrive at his shop, Detective Vargas (Luke Wilson) and Detective Freeman (Bruce Willis), to question him about a recent homicide. Four other girls were found in a hotel brutally murdered, and one of them was Star. And all the evidence points towards Jimmy. The lighter that was found at the spot had his fingerprints on it. Also, he was the last one to be seen with her before she was murdered. Jimmy decides to clear his name by himself. He makes his way into the morbid world of drugs, violence, and corruption. Jimmy admits he was with Star at the hotel, but he left at 2 30 am.Jimmy's dad served with the police force himself. He has an alibi as he went to meet his girlfriend Christine at 2 30 am, which she verifies. Vargas is clear that Jimmy is just one hair follicle away from being arrested.
Jimmy is clearly a former conman who has a lot of connections. He saved a popular actor Dennis Bourke (Kenny Wormald) from getting beaten up when they both served time together. Dennis tells Jimmy that he knew one of the dead prostitutes that he met at a party with Percy Muleeny. Jimmy also meets a mechanic at Dennis's set, who seems like an upright person.
Jimmy is attacked by an unknown person in a land rover, which prompts him to buy an unlicensed gun for protection from the mechanic.He is also on discreet terms with a cop, who gives him Muleeny's current address. The cop also says that Muleeny's land rover was reported stolen a day before. Both these things do make him more or less a nice guy since the time he served, or maybe even before that. He is well-mannered and amicable, especially to women. So, he is motivated by affection.
Getting past Kaiser (Vernon Davis) the Bouncer, Jimmy confronts Percy at his party. Jimmy suspects that Percy met Star and had something to do with the murders, but Percy has an alibi too and Jimmy has no other evidence. There is a lot of drugs in Percy's house. Kaiser later tells Percy that he had seen Star come into Percy's party with Eleanor Rogers (Sufe Bradshaw).Jimmy tracks down Eleanor, who is a singer. She says Percy likes to hang around drug mafia connections, to play him for a fool. She also says that the 4 girls were at Percy's party. She recollects that she had seen the girls hand over money to a silver haired cop officer Flosso (Ash Adams). She says that Flosso handed over money to someone, who looked like the mechanic.
Shortly thereafter, Percy is found murdered in his office, in the same style as the 4 dead girls, brutalized. He used to run a porn filming business. Kaiser's body is found in Jimmy's trunk. Jimmy informs Vargas and Freeman about it. Jimmy thinks Flosso killed Percy, as he is strongly built and can break necks like a twig. He confides in Vargas and says he thinks Freeman is dirty. Vargas says Freeman was at a bar at the night of the murder and Jimmy asks Vargas to check the tapes and bets that Freeman left between 2 and 2 30 am that night.
We see him standing in front of a body of water, once in front of a pool (in the rain) at Muleeny's and once in front of the sea. He is thinking about Star at both times. It is immediately after his moments of calmness that he makes his strategic move, he confronts Bourke after the party at Percy Muleeny's (Rick Salomon). Bourke says that a local cop was pimping the girls from Percy's party. He tells Jimmy to talk to Erasmos, a screenwriter and used to date Star. Erasmos talks to Flosso all the time.Jimmy makes his way to Muleeny's office at Skid Row to interrogate Erasmos (Johnny Dowers). Erasmos says that Star knew that Percy was trafficking drugs from Mexico and found a way to launder the money via his porn film business. He then started trafficking girls. Star knew this and was blackmailing them. So, they used Flosso to kill Star and her friends. Flosso is a cop and was in on the take and the drug mafia used the cops to take care of the blackmailing hookers. Freeman ordered the hit.
Jimmy gets a call from Eleanor, who is standing outside Jimmy's parlor. She calls Jimmy and says that he texted her 15 mins ago. Jimmy says he didn't and asks her to run, but someone grabs her and kills her.Jimmy calls Vargas and says Freeman is definitely engaged in this mess. Vargas agrees and tells Jimmy to stay away from his parlor.Jimmy still goes and is attacked by Flosso, whom he beats. Vargas arrives and arrests Flosso and sends a word to his unit to arrest Freeman. Jimmy takes advantage of the distraction and drives away with Flosso. He learns that Flosso killed Star and he shipped Eleanor to San Diego to traffic her to Mexico via a tunnel.
Jimmy makes Flosso take him the place, and then kills him in the car, by smashing his face. Jimmy enters the tunnel, where Freeman was already taking Eleanor over to Mexico. Jimmy shoots down Freeman and then burns him alive.
