Carson plans to graduate from running small-time craps games in his back yard to partnering with his friend Dan to become a drug dealer.
Curtis and Dan hustle money from a Mexican named Pedro via a crap game and approach Fat George about setting up shop.
As they run in, Pedro's older brother the bartender pulls out a shotgun and kills both men, though he dies in the process.
When Pedro runs into Curtis’s younger brother, a high school basketball star, he asks him where Dan is.
A shootout at Fat George’s apartment leaves several corpses and when Curtis hears that the people after him are dead, he decides the only loose end is Dan, whom he blames for his brother’s situation.