Blue Jack Cadillac

It's 1981, six years after the fall of Saigon in Vietnam. Jack Canada is one of those ex-military career emotional powder kegs, just waiting for someone to strike a match. He's been through a lot, seen a lot, and all he wants to do now is set down in a nice, quiet, sleepy little town outside of Las Vegas. His dream is to open up a little oil change garage. Jack figures it'll be an easy way to make a big chunk of money and then sit back and enjoy his retirement from the military. Jack's spiritual girlfriend, Candy, is thrilled because *she* thinks they'll be able to settle down and get married finally. Jack's younger partner, Eddie, thinks *he* can use the money from the garage to finance his new career as a gemologist in Las Vegas. Eddie's in on the business because he served as Jack's aide back in Vietnam and the two of them are financing it with the $25,000 they made in a little "Special Op" performed for their corrupt Commanding Officer. That special op happened to involve a four-year-old Amerasian boy. So here comes Jack, rolling into town in his powder blue, Cadillac El Dorado convertible. All it takes to push Jack over the edge is the cigar-chomping Mayor of Boulder Junction, Nevada - a town whose conveniently penned motto is, "We're Not Vegas". The Mayor, Don Dodson, has his own agenda, and it doesn't include the likes of Jack and his oil change business, which is pulling customers off the road to Vegas in droves. Don's Big Deal is about to go down, and to pull it off, Don and his cronies have to keep the town as quiet and sleepy as it's been. That's not so easy to do when you've got a topless oil change joint named Gentleman's Lube packing them in from the highway to Vegas. Somebody could even get killed over it. Jack's heartburn escalates as he comes to grips with the actuality of having to interview strippers for the shop, Jack finding himself dealing with emotions that he can't stuff forever. It doesn't help that the more things go well with Jack and Eddie's shop, the more the Mayor has it in for Jack. Now the fuse is lit, stretching all the way back from Jack's corrupt commander in Saigon to Jack racing across the Arizona border with a 10-year-old boy. To top things off, Candy's Psychic says Jack is going to die soon, Eddie's marriage is on the rocks, the Mayor's sent a gangster to shoot Jack's place up and someone's cut down their beautiful "Gentleman's Lube" neon sign. Jack's going to have to come apart at the seams before he can get it together to stop the Mayor, save the boy, get the girl, salvage his friendship, enlist the Police Chief, save his own soul *and* keep from getting himself killed in the process.