After Dale and Saul argue and split up, Saul is kidnapped and is held in Ted's lair. Brazier hears on police radio of Dale's arrest and pursues Dale and Saul in a high-speed chase but they escape. Bobbra has long been suspicious of Brazier's corruption and says she will investigate Saul, thinking he is rescuing Dale, hijacks the police car.
Dale tells Bobbra that he witnessed Brazier and Ted murder a man. Budlofsky and Matheson arrive at the house but Dale and Saul depart before they can be captured and Angie's family goes to a hotel.ĭale and Saul then sell Pineapple Express to raise bus fare but Dale is arrested by police officer Bobbra. Believing his high-schooler girlfriend Angie to be in danger, he and Saul travel to her home where they are removed at gunpoint by her father. Budlofsky and Matheson torture Red for information and both shoot him in the abdomen. Dale and Saul visit Red, who after a fight, reveals that Ted knows who they are and intends to kill them. They attempt to hide in the woods where Dale's car battery dies. Dale and Saul decide they must flee the city. While fleeing, Dale throws his roach containing Pineapple Express, which Ted identifies and he sends his henchmen Budlofsky and Matheson to Red, a drug dealer who tells them about Saul.īack at Saul's apartment, Dale learns Ted is a local drug lord and could trace the roach as only Red and Saul have the Pineapple Express strain. He arrives at the home of Ted Jones and witnesses Ted and police officer Carol Brazier shoot and kill an Asian man. Dale and Saul smoke the rare "Pineapple Express" strain together before Dale leaves to resume working. Seventy-one years later, Dale Denton, a process server and marijuana enthusiast, visits his drug dealer, Saul. A high-ranking officer closes the project and deems marijuana illegal. In 1937, a soldier in an underground military facility is observed through a two-way mirror smoking marijuana and revealing in his euphoria what he hates about the army.