O'Brien babysits the daughter of a client recently released from prison while he goes to retrieve his long-hidden loot. However, instead of a fortune, the client re-emerges with a murder charge.
O'Brien wins a boxer in a craps game but is less than thrilled when he finds out the young man is a rotten fighter. Then O'Brien's luck completely runs out after his boxer is arrested for murdering a rival.
No one believes Oliver Maxwell, an amiable but convicted confidence trickster, when he uses a familiar swindle to raise money for the release of a prisoner in a foreign jail. But this time the story is true - or is it?
O'Brien acts as a middleman between a Presbyterian youth center and a strip bar next door both of whom want the other gone. Then a murder complicates the talks.
Glen Daley Claude Akins arrives from Oklahoma at Port Authority Terminal in New York City. He meets film maker Nick Staphos Alan Alda and agrees to have his life filmed for a week.