S1.E1 ∙ Good Guys and Goodfellas

Jerrold Jarvis Jones, a lowly shipping clerk, falls asleep on his office stool and has a dream: He is an aggressive, carefully groomed man of the world who welcomes adventure when an attractive girl addresses him as Tourvaine and takes him on an automobile ride. He is taken to a meeting of a secret criminal society known as "Children of the Night" and is mistaken for a new leader who was to arrive from abroad, a role he assumes until exposed. In a series of fights with the crooks, he rescues Sylvia (in real life a secretary in his office) and mingles in the world of high society. Awakening from his dream, he is fired with ambition and astonishes everyone by walking out with the stenographer.

Three disparate loners are forced to reflect on their direction and lives when life, death, and drugs intervene.

Barry Johnson believes the new hire at work holds a mysterious connection to his past. He becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery, causing his sense of reality to spiral and fracture.

Two struggling brothers discover a suicide victim who has jumped from a bridge. Curious about his story, they attend the stranger's wake and from there begin crashing other stranger's wakes for inspiration (and free food and booze) in their own lost lives.