The Perfect Host

Warwick Wilson embodies the consummate host, preparing for a refined dinner where the table gleams and the duck is perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. Across town, John Taylor - a career criminal who has just robbed a bank and longs to disappear from the streets - appears at Warwick's doorstep. He pretends to be a friend-of-a-friend, a newcomer to Los Angeles, claiming he has been mugged and has lost his luggage.