Stan’s gambling debts catch up with him just after teaming up with Frank and he has to fake his own death to avoid being whacked by his debtors… Frank, after being briefly incarcerated for being wrongfully accused of embezzling funds on a film project (Stan, the culprit, used the money to gamble his way into more debt…) though is determined to continue his efforts in filmmaking (even though Alan and Stan have officially disappeared off the map–Alan having gone “native” while serving in the Peace Corps in Borneo) and to go into business for himself. He decides to go it alone and brings on an intelligent, yet down-on-his-luck CSUN film school grad named Lance Roberts as an intern and forms his own production company: Cinematic Studios. Little does he know that two local filmmakers have been parodying he and Alan’s schemes after reading Frank’s interview in Voyage L.A. in a webseries named, ironically “Alan & Frank.” Frank, while pondering legal action (or some manner of retaliation) resorts to some new schemes to get things rolling in the meantime…
