Jinxed!

The casino fires Willie, convinced his luck is cursed in Las Vegas. Harold's own winning run continues, straining the couple's finances and tensions. Bonita is forced to abandon her lucrative singing gig to follow Harold and Willie to Reno.

Willie lands a new blackjack-dealing job in Reno, Nevada. Harold follows him there, bringing his gambler’s lifestyle, and Bonita gives up her singing career to accompany them. The trio becomes a relocated, unsettled unit.

Willie reports Harold to casino security, but investigators find no proof of foul play or cheating. The lack of evidence leaves the plan simmering and the relationship between Willie and Harold increasingly fraught. Harold’s luck appears unbroken, which only fuels the underlying tension.

Milt Hawkins suggests that Willie could take a share of Harold the way Harold took a share of others, hinting at a lucrative conspiracy. The conversation plants the seed for a murder plot that hinges on breaking the jinx. The idea remains conditional on Willie’s ability to finally beat Harold at his own game.

Willie follows Harold to his mobile home and encounters Bonita, who falls in love with him. She confesses she wants Harold dead to escape his domineering control. Willie agrees to help only if he can break the jinx first.

Harold plays blackjack against Willie and seems poised to win. A nearby woman extinguishes Harold’s lucky cigar, and Willie cards a 21 to Harold’s 20, finally breaking the jinx. Harold leaves the table flat broke, and the plan’s momentum shifts.

After the win, Willie phones Bonita to cancel the murder plot, but she does not answer the phone. The tension between them remains unresolved as the immediate threat seems to fade. The two anxiously await the next move in their uneasy alliance.

Harold returns home pretending he has won big, then goes to the shower and commits suicide by sticking his finger into an exposed light-bulb socket. Bonita and Willie react with shock as they realize the game has changed in ways they didn’t anticipate. The murder plot loses its obvious target.

Willie arrives to find Bonita hovering over Harold’s dead body and assumes she killed him. She insists it was a suicide, sparing Willie from direct responsibility but forcing them to reconsider their entire plan. The pair’s collaboration becomes a fragile balance of fear and opportunity.

Bonita and Willie decide to fake Harold’s death as an accident to claim life insurance money. Willie drives the trailer with Harold’s corpse to a remote location and rolls it into a ravine, where police conclude it was an accident. They later discover the policy had lapsed, wiping out their potential payout.

Harold leaves Bonita a letter that sends her on a scavenger hunt for clues on how to access money, with the clues spelling J-O-N-A-H. She understands the nod to Jonah, a figure famously associated with a jinx in the Old Testament. The mystery deepens as they chase the money through more theaters of chance.

Bonita goes to the casino, sits at Willie's table, and resumes playing blackjack while smoking the same cigar Harold favored. Her sudden winning streak alarms Willie and his supervisors, who fear the jinx has returned. The tension between past and present schemes escalates.

Willie is fired from his job as the jinx reemerges, and he drives away in defeat. Bonita then hides in the back seat, proposing a new scheme: Willie will travel from casino to casino as a dealer, and they will split the winnings by playing against him. They set out on a fresh, morally gray path to fortunes.