SYNOPSIS:

Oliver (housekeeper) discovers from his co-worker Dillon (maintenance) that Richie Stone, the filthy rich GM of the grand and historic Rivertown Hotel, has been making sex tapes from the secretly-recorded bedroom activities of hotel guests for the past forty years. Dillon, while cleaning the heating duct above Stone’s office, sees him watching amateur porn on his desktop computer. Dillon recognizes the couple as guests of the Rivertown Hotel and realizes the video must be from a secret camera planted in their room. With Stone retiring in a few months, now is the time to hit him with a blackmail ultimatum: pay them $3,000,000 in cash or they will tell the world that he's a sex fiend who's been illegally videotaping sexual activities for forty years. Oliver initially balks. He's afraid if he goes along with the plan, he’ll relapse and return to getting drunk everyday like he used to with his wife, who recently died from medical complications from alcoholism. But Dillon, who's overwhelmed with debt from a mortgage, three kids, a wife, and child-support payments for three illegitimate children, convinces Oliver to go all in on the blackmail scheme. And it works! Well until Dennis Kowalski, the hitman hired by Richie Stone, tries to shoot them dead. But after he fails to kill the targets in the parking ramp where the blackmail cash was left, Oliver and Dillon escape with the two duffel bags full of cash. And the chase is on. The two blackmailers, in way over their heads but with no choice, go on the run. They obtain fake ID's and Visas in NYC, fly to Venice where Dillon manages to avoid serving jail time for buying hashish from an undercover cop but meet the assassin face to face. The two evade Kowalski, flee to London and set a trap in a small Slovakian hotel intending to kill the hit man. But it backfires as Dillon is killed by Kolawski. Oliver survives, barely evades Kowalski and London law enforcement, flies to Rio de Janeiro where he uses the dark web and a YouTube video to set a lethal trap for the assassin. "The Potheads Gotta Go" is an action-packed suspense tale with a hero who breaks free of the shackles of his quiet, conforming, alcoholic life to grow into a killer of a killer and a thriving survivor who lives life on his terms, not the world's.