A U. S. Treasury truck, driving through an industrial area, stops when another truck blocks its path. A magnetized pulley lifts the armored car over the fence, where six masked men steal several engravers’ plates wrapped in foil packets. Later, a man delivers the engravers’ plates to Vince Ricardo on a building rooftop and Vince learns that he must come up with $1.5 million within twenty-four hours to pay for the heist despite his preparations for his son’s wedding that weekend. Later, dentist Sheldon Kornpett, the father of the bride, and his wife, Carol, host a dinner for the groom, Tommy Ricardo, and his parents, who arrive an hour late. Vince makes a sentimental toast to the happy couple but the mood shifts when Vince places a mysterious phone call. When Vince asks Ralph, his supplier, for more time to make a payment while his major international deal is pending, Ralph hangs up on him. Vince realizes he is in trouble and hides a packet of engraver’s plates in the basement conduit of his future in-laws. After the Ricardo family leaves, Sheldon wants to cancel the wedding because he dislikes Vince and is disturbed by the man’s outlandish stories, but Barbara, Sheldon’s daughter, calms him. Later, when Vince sees a couple of Ralph’s henchmen waiting outside his office building, he detours to Sheldon’s dental office to persuade Sheldon to leave his office for five minutes to grab a black bag from Vince’s office safe. When the henchmen see how nervous Sheldon is, they follow him. Sheldon grabs Vince’s bag and exits through the fire escape as the henchmen break into Vince’s office. One gunman shoots at Sheldon as he escapes. When Sheldon returns to his getaway car, an empty, locked cab, the gunman shoots at him. Sheldon surrenders the bag to the gunman but before the man can grab it, Vince knocks the henchman out with the butt of his gun. Vince shoots a second gunman in the wrist and throws Sheldon in the cab. When Vince apologizes at Sheldon’s office, Sheldon is hysterical and tells Vince to leave. Instead, Vince explains that Sheldon has unknowingly transported engravers’ plates stolen from the U. S. Mint, and Sheldon passes out. Meanwhile, in the Kornpett basement, beverage deliverymen accidentally knock into the conduit and uncover Vince’s $500 bill engravers’ plates; Carol takes the find to her bank. At a diner, Sheldon struggles to understand his crime while Vince explains that he is a CIA agent who stole the plates independently when the CIA rejected his plan to stop a Latin-American syndicate from flooding the global economy with counterfeit money. Vince says Sheldon’s involvement will be over when Vince sends one of his associates to remove the hidden plates from Sheldon’s basement. When FBI agents grill Nancy and Barbara about Sheldon at the Kornpett house, Sheldon sees the parked convoy of government cars, panics and drives off. Later, Vince instructs Sheldon to drive to McGraw Airfield in New Jersey. According to Vince, they will fly to Scranton, Pennsylvania, and by the time they return in a few hours the entire situation will have blown over. In the plane, Vince informs Sheldon about a change in plans. They will fly first to Tihada, a tiny island near Honduras, where they will meet some corrupt Tihadan officials and General Garcia. Vince plans to hand over the plates, collect $20 million, and make an arrest. On a Tihadan runway, snipers kill Senator Jesus Braunschweiger when he greets Vince and Sheldon. The men run to Jesus’ car, escape and check into a hotel. When Sheldon finds a phone booth and calls the American Embassy, he learns from intelligence official Barry Lutz that Vince was thrown out of the CIA for erratic behavior a year ago. Lutz advises Sheldon to avoid Vince, but Vince argues that the Embassy would tell any stranger that he was crazy to cover their tracks and Sheldon agrees to hide at the hotel until Vince finishes his business. However, the plan is quickly scrapped when Vince is taken hostage by the snipers in a cab. Sheldon grabs on the roof of the vehicle and goes along for the ride. Soon, Sheldon and Vince gain control of the cab and it crashes at an outdoor fruit market. After a brief shoot out, Vince and Sheldon escape in the cab with the snipers in pursuit. On the highway, Vince crosses the divider several times and drives backwards, but he is unable to lose the pursuers until his gunshots cause a shipment of bananas on a truck to cascade on to the road, causing the snipers’ car to skid out of control. Sheldon is euphoric that Vince has triumphed over the bad guys and accompanies him to the General’s mansion. The General’s men give Vince an attaché case with $10 million and two smaller packages of $5 million. Vince, in turn, gives one of the $5 million bundles to Sheldon. When the General rips open the plates and gazes at them in admiration, he brags that he will flood the global economy with $300 billion, and the world monetary system will collapse in seventy-two hours like “a wet taco.” A lavish banquet hosted by the General is followed by a concert given by a chorus of soldiers, but the singers transform into a firing squad when Vince and Sheldon attempt to leave. With their execution imminent, Vince and Sheldon stall the General. Just before the firing squad shoots, the compound is swarmed by a CIA rescue team led by Barry Lutz. When Lutz claims the plates and the attaché filled with money, Vince informs him of his decision to quit the CIA now that his son is getting married. Vince and Sheldon, dressed in tuxedos, arrive late to the wedding by helicopter. Each father gives their child an envelope with $1 million. When Lutz arrives, Sheldon thinks they will have to return the money, but Lutz jokes with Vince about not receiving a wedding invitation. All is forgiven and the marriage takes place as planned.