

Jamie schemes with Junior to start a business selling Helen's popular sweet-potato pies and turns the hotel into a giant bakery, with Helen, Junior and Fancy helping to bake. Meanwhile, Helen tries to cure Junior of lotto fever. After some flirting lessons from Jamie, it's "B Smooth" who impresses the ladies. Meanwhile, Junior is stumped by a hotel plumbing problem.Īunt Helen convinces Jamie to take heartbroken Braxton out on the town with him, to a club owned by basketball player Gary Payton. Embarrassed, Jamie asks Fancy to pose as his girlfriend while the ex is in town. Jamie's newly engaged ex shows up at the hotel and he thinks she's there to see him, until she reveals she's there for a convention. But Nelson quickly figures out that Jamie is exploiting him to attract Fancy, and sets out to make Jamie's life hellish by blackmailing him and stealing various items from around the hotel: computer files, Junior's fine Cuban cigars and Fancy's diary. When Jamie learns that Fancy loves children, he tries to impress her by becoming mentor to young Nelson, the most harmless-looking child Jamie could find. Unfortunately, when Jamie quits while he's ahead by throwing the dice down, the dealer thinks Jamie wants to continue betting, and Jamie loses everything. Junior convinces Jamie to go to a casino and win enough to save the hotel. Meanwhile, due to Junior's negligence and compulsive gambling, the hotel is in serious debt. Hartnabrig, and the dumb bellman Dennis, Jamie vies for the attention of the sexy and shrewd front desk clerk Francesca "Fancy" Monroe. Attempting to ignore the condescending hotel accountant, Braxton P. First, he'll have to be content with working and living at the aging, once-famous Los Angeles hotel "The King's Tower", owned by his sensible aunt Helen King, and her troublesome husband Junior King. When Jamie King arrives in Hollywood, California, from Texas, he dreams of succeeding in show business. Story by : Bentley Kyle Evans & Jamie Foxx
