Johnny and his live-in girlfriend Moira
throw a party. Dutch Stiles and Floyd Eddy reunite at this
party to form a partnership robbing warehouses, just like
the old days. Floyd was recently dumped by his girlfriend
Sabine because he cheats on her. But he still loves her.
Dutch, single father to 10 year old Maddy and several
years older than Floyd, is interested in Sabine once he
meets her at the party.
Dutch lies to Maddy about what he does. He
tells her he’s in real estate. He tells this to his
life-long friend El Mando, as well. The problem is, El
Mando is not only a masked wrestler and movie star, he is
a fighter of crime. Mando wants to put Dutch on the
straight and narrow so he offers him a studio job as
monster wrangler – tracking down monsters in order to cast
them in El Mando movies. Dutch has other plans. He wants
to rob a bank and then, once and for all, get out of the
robbing business. Maddy is 10 and it’s time he became a
proper father.
Floyd introduces Dutch to Cutter Conroy.
Cutter and Floyd used to rob banks together but Floyd
wanted out. Cutter plays too rough. Still, Dutch decides
to do a bank job with Cutter, Cutter’s right hand man Ned,
and Cecil, an old friend of Dutch’s and a wizard at
electronics, safes, bugging, etc.
Sabine meets Mando through Dutch who
arranges to help her and Moira get an exclusive photo
session with Mando. At the photo shoot, a monster, who is
tracking down Mando, spies Sabine and follows her home.
It attacks but Mando arrives and, after a fierce battle,
finishes the monster. Afterwards, Dutch arrives at
Sabine’s to see how the photo shoot went. She asks him
out and a romance begins.
Floyd and Dutch do a warehouse job together
which goes better than the first one they tried. But
Floyd is blue because of the Dutch/Sabine budding
romance. Floyd goes to Mando to see if Mando would
consider hiring HIM for the monster wrangler job. Mando
says no and they have a long chat about right and wrong.
Floyd is discouraged.
Cecil bugs Pineville bank president Sammy
Grimes’ office to find out when the big payroll is coming
through the bank. Sammy has his own dirty dealings going
on behind the scenes at the bank. Soon the robbery date
is set and it proceeds. Something goes wrong – Cecil is
shot dead and Cutter is shot and falls into a stream. Ned
drives away in a panic and Dutch gets away narrowly with
the money. Floyd picks him up and helps him bury the
money in Dutch’s back yard. Maddy discovers her father is
the bank robber, digs up the cash, and returns it to the
bank. Sammy gets his hands on the cash and tells no one
it’s been returned; in this way he can better hide his own
grafting activities.
Dutch goes with Mando on a monster fighting
job only to watch a furious battle between Mando and a
Sytharee – mutant monster from a local lake. Dutch
accepts Mando’s job as monster wrangler and goes on the
hunt for a Droglinx, an ancient race of monster that no
one has been able to secure. Dutch gets lost but is aided
by a spooky spirit in the woods. He comes face to face
with the Droglinx in an old train tunnel and, after some
time, the chat goes well and he gets the Droglinx to agree
to be in an El Mando movie.
But there are more troubles. Dutch
discovers that Maddy has returned the money to the bank.
He also discovers that Cutter is alive and wants his share
of the loot. Dutch won’t tell him his daughter returned
it. Instead, he says he lost it but Cutter doesn’t buy
it.
More monsters come into the scene, Cutter
begins to fume, Floyd wants Sabine back, Maddy wants to
help her dad. Others such as Detective Sorenson, movie
director Earl Kenton, Johnny and Moira all get into the
scene. So do a persistent pair of bat creatures. There is
kidnapping, killing, and surprise friendships that arise
in the wake of all this tumult.
How
does it all turn out? Wait until this winter and go see
Last Stop in a Violent Town.
