Given the question: Build a movie plot around this: What does Prendergast begin the day after the events in the movie? helping move the car off the road
The answer is:
William Foster is an engineer, recently laid off in the early 1990s recession, and under a restraining order keeping him away from his recently divorced wife Beth and their child, Adele. Stuck in a traffic jam Foster abandons his car, planning to walk across Los Angeles to "go home" and attend Adele's birthday party. He repeatedly calls his ex-wife from a phone booth and runs out of change. Police Sergeant Martin Prendergast happens on the abandoned car, helping move it off the road while musing about it being his last day before retirement.At a convenience store, Foster attempts to break a dollar bill for more phone calls, but the Korean owner refuses and demands Foster make a purchase instead. Foster argues with the owner over the cost of a can of soda when he finds he cannot afford both, and the owner threatens Foster with a baseball bat. Foster takes the bat and destroys overpriced items to scold the owner for his high prices, then pays for the drink while leaving with the bat.While sitting with his drink, two gang members extort him with a knife, demanding his briefcase as a toll for trespassing. Foster attacks them with the bat and takes their knife. The gang pursues Foster, locating him at a phone booth where they open fire in a drive-by shooting, hitting several bystanders but missing Foster. After the driver loses control and crashes, Foster picks up a dropped gun, shoots the only surviving gang member in the leg, and takes their weapons. At the police station Prendergast receives a report from the convenience store owner describing Foster.At a Whammy Burger fast food restaurant, Foster becomes angry when they refuse to serve breakfast because it is three minutes into lunch. Pulling out a gun he accidentally fires into the ceiling, terrifying everybody. He changes his mind about ordering lunch, but becomes further annoyed when the burger he is served does not resemble an advertisement. Foster leaves and calls Beth from a phone booth, shooting it after being hassled by someone waiting for it....