- The Dude is taking a bath and smoking a roach when he receives a phone call: the L.A. police have recovered his car, and he needs to come claim it.
- While The Dude declares this to be "far out," a bunch of skinny guys wearing what looks like scuba-diving gear break into his apartment and start smashing things.
- It turns out they're the German nihilists. They drop a ferret in The Dude's bathtub and tell him that they believe in "nusink" and want the ransom money they never got from him.
- If he doesn't pay up quick, they'll come back and cut off his Johnson.