Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady In the park they each fall different girls, though Charlie's has a male friend already Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws his girl's friend into the lake Frightened, the girls go off to a movie Charlie shows up there and flirts with them Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen