Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It’s a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!

Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Accompanied by an all-star jazz soundtrack, Sharky’s new “machine” gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.

Agents force an ex con to help them nab a corrupt politician.