About a year ago, Beaufort T. Peacock, a computer programmer at Pomegranate Computer Company, was assigned the task of developing a Computer Based Training program (CBT).  Over time, he developed a revolutionary program that will alter the course of computer based training for years to come.  Realizing the vast potential of his program, Beaufort is reluctant to turn it over to his billionaire, cheapskate boss, Peter Pomegranate.  He decides to market the program on his own.

Beaufort first goes to Bubba Reno whom he knows from the local bar scene, not knowing Bubba's connection to local organized crime.  He asks for a loan to help with "his mother's emergency
surgery" . Bubba loans the money to Beaufort.  With interest, of course.

Beaufort is an excellent programmer but a lousy business man and quickly goes through the money  without getting his venture up and running.  He tries to borrow more money from Bubba but Bubba only laughs and, begins demanding something he calls vigorish.

Beaufort, in a moment of brilliance, remembers Amber Green, an old sweetheart who left Pomegranate Computer Company to start her own, highly successful software company.  She is the only person Beaufort knows who has both the capital and the savvy to market his program, but her ethics would prevent her from marketing a stolen program.  He tells her that he has developed the program on his own time and owns all rights to it.  Amber is delighted both to hear from Beaufort and to learn of the new CBT.  She immediately sees the potential of this software and happily reaches an agreement with Beaufort.  Equal Partners.

Beaufort, meanwhile, meets an attractive married woman at a local coffee shop and they quickly become infatuated with each other.  One thing leads to another and they begin to meet once or twice a week at a secret love nest.  Over pillow talk, Beaufort spills the beans about his new program and his plans to market it.  He tells Hilda that he has contacted an old friend who is going to help him market the program.

Hilda tells Beaufort that she is very unhappy in her marriage, that her husband works all the time and never has time for her.  She says that her husband, Herman, is head of security for a firm called Pomegranate Computer Company and works all the time.  Oops.  So much for making love today.

Herman Higginbotham, meanwhile, smells a rotten pomegranate and has placed Beaufort under surveillance.  He checks Beaufort's telephone records and notices calls to Amber Green.  He never did trust that woman.  His surveillance leads him to the Java Java Coffee shop where he sees Beaufort meeting a woman. The woman looks familiar so Herman goes to the trunk of his car to retrieve his trusty binoculars.  He returns to find them gone but he has a nagging suspicion that the woman was his wife.