Daniel. I hope you are not conversing with your guns. Remember we talked about this. It is not healthy to attribute blame to a rifle.

Cloisters, Essex County, New Jersey.
Daniel McEvoy is thinking of his ex-landlady Sofia as he heads to the casino. She's crazy. Most of the time she thinks Daniel is her long-lost husband Carmine. Unfortunately Daniel is in love with her. His thoughts are interrupted by his cell phone. His friend Zeb Kronski breaks the bad news. Mrs Madden is dead. It's not just that she is dead that makes this news bad. It is because Mrs Madden is their insurance. Zeb and Daniel refrain from killing her and in return "Irish Mike", her son and Cloisters' very own Mr Big, will refrain from killing them. This is a system that has worked well up to now but in all honesty who would have thought of adding the actual cause of Mrs Madden's death, a freak lightning strike, to the plan. Mike has summoned them to a meeting where he poses a solution: he will let them live if Daniel delivers a package to a guy in SoHo - a guy who can be a little touchy. However, if Daniel fails to deliver the package then Daniel and all those he cares for are at risk: Sofia, his casino partner, whoever. Noting that Zeb has typically come to his own arrangement with Irish Mike, Dan sets out to deliver the package. And when two local cops draw up and tell him that his friend Lieutenant Deacon would like a word, he climbs into the back of their car. He hasn't bargained for the up-close tasering he receives. And waking up handcuffed to a chair wearing nothing but a pink thong is not on his to-do list either - particularly with two cops wearing gimp masks and rubber aprons who are hunched over their laptop checking auction pledges. What's more it appears that the item up for auction is the video of Dan's torture and death...