“C’mon, Eliot!” Jesse’s on the phone with his good-for-nothing agent who has never managed to get him anything better than being a f*****g extra. It’s lunchtime. He’s at a payphone outside the set of the TV series he’s currently working on, as an extra of course, and he’s at the end of his tether what with there being no other job in sight for him.
Jesse rubs the back of his neck. Things have turned from bad to worse since his so-called boyfriend dumped him a month ago. Max had simply walked out one day and left Jesse high and dry without enough money to pay for the apartment they’d rented together.
The landlord has been hounding him for the rent money, saying that Jesse has to vacate the place unless he pays for another month. Jesse cringes at the thought of what he has in his wallet. T
