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The Dude is forcibly brought to Treehorn, who is seeking Bunny and the money she owes him. Treehorn
drugs the Dude’s white Russian cocktail, causing him to dream about starring in a Treehorn lm about
bowling with Maude. Awakening in police custody, the Dude is assaulted by the Malibu police chief. After
being kicked out of a cab for hating the Eagles, the Dude is unknowingly passed by Bunny, revealed to
still have all of her toes. The Dude returns home to nd his bungalow ransacked by Treehorn’s goons.
He is seduced by Maude, who hopes to conceive a child but wishes him to have no involvement in its
upbringing. She explains that her father has no money of his own, as her late mother left everything to
the family charity.
Having had an epiphany, the Dude has Walter drive him to the Lebowski estate, where Bunny has
returned, and the truth of her disappearance is revealed: When Bunny left town on an unannounced
trip, her nihilist friends faked her kidnapping to extort money from her husband; Lebowski, who hated
his wife, withdrew the ransom from the foundation but kept it for himself, instead giving the Dude
a briefcase containing phone books. Walter and the Dude confront Lebowski, who refuses to admit
responsibility, so Walter picks him up and throws him out of his wheelchair, thinking he is also faking his
paralysis.
The Dude and his friends return to the bowling alley, where they are confronted by the nihilists.
Learning there was never any money, the nihilists try to rob them but Walter violently fends them o.
During the scue, Donny suers a fatal heart attack and dies.
Some time later, after delivering an informal eulogy to Donny at the beach, Walter accidentally scatters
Donny’s ashes onto the Dude. They go bowling, and the Dude encounters the lm’s cowboy narrator,
who tells the audience that Maude is pregnant with a “little Lebowski” and hopes that the Dude and
Walter will win their upcoming bowling tournament.
“A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about,
fella by the name of Je Lebowski. At least, that was the handle
his lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for
it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude...”
THE STRANGER