Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Jim takes samples to Kathy, Fact2: Nick convinces Jim and Ves to meet Danny, Fact3: police and mob are searching for drugs, Fact4: Danny is thrilled by small test packet of heroin brought to him by boys, Fact5: Mitch and Lenny force him to call Jim
Output (English): Late one night in Los Angeles, Sgt. Fred Matthews Frank Harding and Officer Lynn Donahue Slate Harlow arrest a pusher who is carrying two pounds of uncut heroin. They are ambushed by gangsters Mitch Swadurski Herman Rudin and Lenny Potter Philip Mansour, who kill Matthews and wound Donahue, then kill the pusher after he tosses the briefcase containing the heroin into the underbrush. Next day, the case is found by eighteenyearold Julian Ves Vespucci Jonathon Haze as he delivers groceries from his fathers store. Ves and his pals, wouldbe artist Jim Bowers Yale Wexler and bodybuilder Nick Raymond Morris Miller find the case contains samples of womens cosmetics. The canister containing the heroin is labeled face powder, so they throw the can away, although Jim keeps some powder for his girl friend Kathy. The boys pawn the briefcase. Jim takes the samples to Kathy and proposes to her. Kathy is afraid he will be unable to support them. Jim sees a newspaper headline about the missing narcotics. He rushes to tell Nick and Ves, but the canister has since been picked up by a garbage truck. After a frantic search at the city dump, they find it. Nick convinces Jim and Ves to meet Danny, a heroin addict. The police and the mob are searching for the drugs, using every contact they have in the underworld and on the streets. Danny is thrilled by the small test packet of heroin brought to him by the boys and agrees to sell it for them. The three are awed by the money that Danny gets for the heroin. Nick and Ves go shopping, while Jim buys a bracelet for Kathy. When he explains where he got the money, Jim is surprised by Kathys vehement rejection of the bracelet. She upbraids him for profiting from others weakness. Danny relates to Jim in harrowing detail how he got addicted. Deeply moved by Dannys story, Jim grows more reluctant to continue selling. The police obtain their first break when the pawnbroker reports the briefcase he bought from the boys. He recalls that one was named Nick and worked in a garage. Lenny and Mitch learn from a local pusher that Danny has been selling heroin. Jim wants out of the scheme completely, wanting to give the drugs to the police. Danny is brutally questioned by Lenny and Mitch at his shack. Nick goes to collect the days earnings from Danny, and he, too, is beaten by the gangsters. Ves is also captured by Mitch and Lenny, who force him to call Jim. Begged to bring the rest of the drugs to Dannys, Jim insists that he is going to the police. Jim retrieves the canister and the gangsters pursue him. As Ves then telephones the police, Jim climbs a tower in a power plant. Mitch climbs after him, but Jim pours heroin onto Mitchs upturned face. The police arrive and capture Lenny, then shoot Mitch, who falls to his death. Jim is told that Nick is in the hospital. He and Ves are arrested and led off to face the consequences of their greed.