Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Roy Waller is con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourette 's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Fact2: ex-wife was pregnant during time of divorce, Fact3: Roy agrees to work with Frank on long-term con, Fact4: pair arrogant businessman plans to con with Pigeon drop, Fact5: Chuck 's flight to Caymans has been updated to day instead of Friday as planned
Output (English): Roy Waller Nicolas Cage is a con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourettes syndrome and obsessivecompulsive disorder. Alongside his partner and protege Frank Mercer Sam Rockwell, Roy operates a fake lottery, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspecting customers. After Roy experiences a violent panic attack, Frank suggests he see a psychiatrist, Dr. Harris Klein Bruce Altman. Klein provides Roy with medication, and in therapy has Roy recall his past relationship with Heather, his exwife who was pregnant during the time of the divorce. At Roys behest, Klein informs Roy that he called Heather and found out that Roy has a 14yearold daughter, Angela Alison Lohman. Roy and Angela meet, and her youthful energy rejuvenates him. Roy thus agrees to work with Frank on a longterm con: their target is Chuck Frechette Bruce McGill, an arrogant businessman whom the pair plans to con with the Pigeon drop. One night, Angela unexpectedly arrives at Roys house, saying that she has had a fight with her mother, and decides to stay for the weekend before returning to school. She explores his belongings and causes him to rethink his life, which he mentions during therapy with Klein. Angela returns home late one night, leading to an argument between the two. During dinner, Roy admits that he is a con artist and reluctantly agrees to teach Angela a con. The two of them go to a local laundromat and con an older woman into believing she has won the lottery, and she shares half of her expected winnings with Angela; however, Roy then forces Angela to return the money. Roy goes bowling with Angela but is interrupted when Frank reveals that Chucks flight to the Caymans has been updated to that day instead of Friday as planned. With little time left, Roy reluctantly chooses to let Angela play the part of distracting Chuck midway through the con; however, after the con is finished, Chuck realizes what has happened and chases the two into a parking garage before they escape. Roy then learns that Angela was arrested a year earlier, and asks that she stop calling him. Without Angela, Roys myriad phobias resurface, and during another panic attack, he ultimately learns that the medication given to him by Klein is a placebo. Roy proclaims that he needs Angela in his life but that he would have to change his lifestyle, much to Franks disappointment. Roy and Angela return from dinner one night to find Chuck waiting for them with a gun, alongside a badly beaten Frank. Angela shoots Chuck and Roy sends her off with Frank into hiding until the matter can be sorted out. As Roy prepares to take care of Chucks body, Chuck suddenly springs to life and knocks Roy unconscious. Roy awakens in a hospital, where the police inform him that Chuck died from the gunshot and Frank and Angela have disappeared. Klein appears and Roy gives him the password to his bank account, ordering him to give the money to Angela when she is found. Later, Roy awakens to find that the police have disappeared, his hospital room is actually a freight container on the roof of a parking garage, Dr. Kleins office is vacant, and essentially all of his money has been taken. As he begins to realize that Frank pulled a con on him, Roy drives over to Heathers whom he hasnt seen for years looking for Angela. While speaking with Heather Melora Walters, Roy learns the truth: Heather miscarried their child. There is no Angela: the young girl he thought was his child was actually Franks accomplice. One year later, Roy has become a salesman at a local carpet store, which Angela and her boyfriend one day wander into. Roy confronts Angela but ultimately forgives her, realizing that he is much happier as an honest man. Angela reveals that she did not receive her fair share of the cut from Frank, and that it was the only con she ever pulled. Angela and her boyfriend depart and Roy returns home to his new wife Kathy Sheila Kelley, who is now pregnant with his child.