Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi who tells them stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and is being chased by bounty hunters. The boys agree to help him meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out for blood.

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

A retired ex-cop and private detective lives with a rich actor who is dying from cancer, and his actress wife. The ex-cop gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money, and soon realizes that many people have skeletons in their closets.