Bobby, desperate to support his wife, Wendy, and start a family, muses that he would sell his soul to the devil to get ahead.

The Devil begins to appear to Bobby as a prospective agent named Harry O. Tophet[a] and offers Shelton a deal—seven years of unprecedented fame and fortune.

Shelton balks at the deal, and so Tophet renegotiates, claiming that it will be for a "trial period," urging Bobby to leave his earnest agent Charlie.

Shelton signs the document, but his signature transforms into that of established rock star Billy Wayne, the last person to whom Tophet offered this deal, and soon after Bobby realizes that he has sold his soul to the Devil.

Realizing that he is trapped, Bobby asks for help from God, who has been watching over him, finally succeeding when, as Billy Wayne, he travels to Las Vegas for important shows.

Bobby rises from the floor of the dressing room and slips away as staffers discover the corpse of Billy Wayne, who had died by suicide.

After warning Bobby that the next time He will not bail him out, Shelton returns to happiness in a simple life with his loving wife and daughter.