When Max Evergreen reaches his destination, he's held in the corner of a shabby room where he sits bound and gagged on the floor! While his greedy hosts negotiate an expensive exchange for Max, the resourceful businessman searches for a means of escape and finds it when he spots a phone left carelessly nearby. But soon after Max manages to stand up and grab the phone, he's caught by the vigilant villain; to remind him who's in charge, Max is stripped to his underwear and left hogtied on the floor!