一个试图跻身于好莱坞的年轻人马狄自编自导自演了一部侦探剧,演出惨遭失败,随即被解雇。他交不起房租,女友也离他而去,在走投无路的情况下,偶然遇见了一个私家大侦探杰克,他想要跟他学当侦探然后东山再起,可是杰克不肯收留他。他苦苦地哀求,缠得杰克毫无办法,只好答应试用他两个星期。 几天下来,马狄一无所获,恳求杰克能给他一次机会,杰克只好把“唯一的”一桩案子交给他处理,让他到北方小镇水狸山去侦查一桩通奸案。杰克教他如何监听,摄影,录 Maidi, a young man who tried to get into Hollywood, wrote a detective drama and performed dismissal. He could not afford the rent and his girlfriend left him. Occasionally he met a private detective Jack, who wanted to talk to him as a detective and come back again, but Jack would not accept him. He begged bitterly, wrapped Jack no solution, had promised to try him for two weeks. Few days, Ma Di nothing, pleaded with Jack to give him a chance, Jack had no choice but to give him the “only” one case, let him go to the northern town of Water Rock Hill to investigate a case of adultery. Jack taught him how to monitor, photography, recording