Buck meets the filthy cripple Lazio Rizzo, who promises to find customers for Buck for ten dollars. Buck pulled out his only ten dollars, only to find that Rizzo had introduced a gay man. Buck angrily went to Rizzo to settle the account. When he bent down to get the money back, he found that Rizzo was in extremely poor health. After learning the truth, Buck was very sympathetic to Rizzo and helped Rizzo into his dilapidated home. The two depended on each other, still holding out hope of getting rich quick at first, but soon found that they were not suitable for living in the urban jungle. Riseau is seriously ill, and Buck extorts money from his pestering gays to take Riseau to the warm South, but Risor dies of his illness.
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