Hype 1.5 - Aftermath

Hype - Slippery Slope

Genre: Crime / Dark Comedy

Director: Stephen Merchant

Writer: Dominic Wilkins

Cast: Seth Green, Charles Baker, Nick Swardson, Alicia Silverstone, Daniel Stern, Sarah Polley and Gabriel Iglesias

Plot: David (Seth Green), following Sarah’s arrest, takes the matter into his own hands. He orders Chuck (Charles Baker) and Steve (Nick Swardson) to stay here and work the games as they normally would, without the elaborate scheme and everything that goes with it, only mascot work now. David will stay here and work with them. Since Dennis (Daniel Stern) doesn’t have anything to do anymore, he will be the one to head over to the police station to find out what’s happening. They agree to the plan and go back to their job, as the next game is about to start.

Dennis heads over to the police station, where he’s able to speak with Sarah (Alicia Silverstone). They say their detain her on fraud and extortion charges, but they don’t need to worry, she won’t rat them out. She might be able to find a way to get out of here. She says a parent was probably just too frustrated that his son kept losing and, at the same time, throwing his money down the drain. They don’t have proof that she’s involved in some of sort of scheme and she won’t give them any indication that she might be. Dennis asks her if he can pay her bail and she refuses to, saying that it would be too risky for a man of his stature and appearance to pay her bail in cash today. She tells him not to worry, she’ll get out of here soon. He asks her what they can now that that she’s in jail and she tells them to hold on and to honor the association contracts. A police officer throws Dennis out, they need to speak to her.

David left the game early and he decided, instead, to secure the money they already have before they obtain a search warrant for the association’s office. He gets a lot of weird looks downtown when he walks with his rabbit costume. He gets on a public bus and he sits alone in the front row. An old woman gets on the bus and sits next to him. He asks her if she’s going to ask him weird questions today and she answers that she let the others live their lives as they want to, and, after all, she has done her fair shares of weird things back when she was a hippie. He says it’s nice to see someone who’s not judgemental. He stinks from being stuck in this stupid costume all day, he reeks of alcohol, as always and still, she sits here and doesn’t say a word. He gets off the bus and fills his costume with money before heading out.

Dennis is allowed to see Sarah again and she says she learned new development in her case. It’s not the benign thing she thought he was. The policeman just revealed her what he knows and he was surprisingly accurate, with a few details incorrect. She denied anything, but it looks like someone ratted her, or them out. She tasks Dennis of finding out who did it, because it looks like she’ll be here a while. She won’t rat them out and if she’s finally accused, she’ll claim she acted alone, but she wants to know who ratted them out.

David enters his apartment and is greeted by his girlfriend Jessie (Sarah Polley). She orders him to stop moving and she claims to use her psychic powers for something. She correctly guesses that David is hiding money in his suit, but David points out that it was quite evident, bills were showing from the rabbit head. She’s frustrated that he doesn’t believe in her powers and he says in order for him to be impressed by her so-called powers, she needs to guess how he got that money. She says it’s unfair he puts her in a situation she hasn’t prepared for and he says that’s why he thinks she doesn’t have psychic powers, because she always guesses things that are really evident. Jessie is curious what he’ll do with all this money, they surely can’t keep it here. He says he doesn’t know and she asks if she can take some to buy some shoes and clothes and he tells her to serve herself. She fills a bag of money and heads to her computer to shop online. David has an illumination and leaves the apartment in a hurry with the money.

He goes to next door’s apartment to his friend Jesus (Gabriel Iglesias), who left the mascot industry after suffering a heart attack in the middle of a made-up wrestling ring. Jesus sees the money and he asks David if it’s a “I’m sorry” gift for giving him a heart attack and he says he can see it that way. He asks his friend if he can be honest with him and trust him and Jesus says he sees David as a brother, of course he can. He tells Jesus everything that happened since he left and Jesus accepts to hide the money while things cool off.

Two months later

A luxury car parks in David’s spot in front of his apartment. David exits his apartment with shades and a leather coat. Jessie had her nails done and hair extension. She says she digs David’s new look. He looks like he’s going for the mid-life crisis look and he pulls it off. She asks him if he wants to go eat at Rivieri’s tonight ands he says he’d rather not, he just got on the VIP list at Mario’s and he would like to try it out. He turns on the television to the news. They report that a man is in critical condition after a drug overdose. David doesn’t really look at it, but Jessie asks David if he used to work with that man and he recognizes Chuck. Reality got back at David.