Buster Rayburn is in a prison cell. His voice over can be heard, 'here I am again, they said I wouldn't make it on the outside. If only I didn't meet that dame'

The gangsters girlfriend Lacey Lane appears. Buster cant't take his eyes off her.

Buster is back at the same bar drinking bourbon. Lacey Lane walks in and whispers seductively in his ear.

Buster and Lacey meet in his dingy hotel room. She thanks him and says that she'll run away with him that
night.

Lacey gives Buster a gun and a kiss.

Buster waits for Lacey at the railway station. The cops turn up and arrest him. Lacey can be seen in the background. She has obviously reported him to the police.

Buster quickly grabs a policeman's gun and after a struggle, manages to fire a shot which hits Lacey and she dies.

Back to Buster in jail. His voice over can be heard, 'you see, dames always bring a man down. She won't hurt anymore suckers now.'

Buster is drunk in a bar on his own and is greeted by a gangster who says that he has a job for him. Buster turns turns down the job.

Back to Buster in jail. Voice over, 'if only I walked away when I had the chance.'

Buster shoots the gangster as he leaves his house one morning.

We do not follow Todorov's theory, and these event aren't in a very clear order.