Ethan

A mysterious narrator introduces the audience to Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski, an exceptionally lazy man living in 1990s Los Angeles. The narrator sets the scene and tone of the story while the Dude performs the mundane task of buying milk with a post-dated check.

The Dude is interrogated by the 'Big' Lebowski and his assistant Brandt regarding a botched ransom drop-off. Despite the high stakes of a kidnapping, the Dude attempts to use his own convoluted logic to explain the situation and ask for his fee, only to be met with a gruesome piece of evidence.