COC One-Shot: Fresh Off the Bus
Hook : 1953, Tumbleweed, Texas. A boomtown…bust. The once luxurious Plimpton hotel now a seedy 6-story rundown dive. The manager trying his best to keep it from being a hookers’ hangout. Thus, a hotel detective to keep an eye on things. A cast of employees down-on-their-luck. Waiting for their break. And tonight would offer that chance. Each had heard of the rendezvous of another Reno gangster’s planned drop of mob money turnover to a California courier. The employees had monitored the pattern set over the last 6 months. Man-in-black arrives with a large carpetbag. Yet before midnight someone else is seen carrying the bag away. When the man-in-black would wander into the hotel bar, bartender Mell graciously served him spiked drinks to loosen his tongue. “Several thousand smackers it was.” Taylor Knott (Matt) hotel detective. Tortured dreams from the war. Hard enough to sleep with the nightmares. That damn drunk Oz next-door and his LOUD snoring doesn’t help. He co