A hip injury during a performance causes him to get an infection and slip into a coma. Twenty years later, living at the retirement home as the film opens, he is contemplating his age, frailty, loss of dignity, impotence, and "a growth on [his] pecker". Elvis's only friend is a paraplegic black man named Jack (Ossie Davis) who insists he is President John F. Kennedy, claiming to have had his skin dyed black after an assassination attempt which crippled him from the waist down, and abandoned by Lyndon Johnson in a nursing home. Initially skeptical of Jack's story, Elvis does spot a mysterious scar on the back of Jack's head. It could be from the head wound seen in the Zapruder film, but then it might not be.