Timothy is held by the landlady as security for the back rent, and as a last resort he tries to make his escape in some rugs the carpet cleaning man has called for. He is discovered and the landlady takes him to the Sunset Loan Office to pawn him. At the pawnshop he manages to get a pair of scissors which a man is pawning. With these he cuts the leash that binds him and escapes. He then comes upon an offer of a thousand dollars to any man who will last three rounds with Tin-Eared Terry, the Terror, and determines to get the money. After training he goes to watch his opponent, Terry. Finally the night of the fight arrives and Timothy has a bad case of cold feet. Jeff has a scheme which gives Timothy heart, and Jeff's proposition is to make Terry lose the fight or kill him with a gun. He tries it out on the Terror. Then the manager comes to Terry and tells him that the receipts for the night are small and threatens to make Terry a dead man if he doesn't win the fight. At last Timothy wins, but the manager has absconded with the money. The next morning Timothy is accosted by a detective, who accuses him of forgery. He and Jeff jump on a streetcar, and the detective follows them on a sight-seeing bus bound for Universal City. There Timothy in the visitors' gallery sees his double, the man wanted for forgery, working in a scene. He follows him when the latter is excused to take a smoke and knocking him out, Timothy dons his clothes and enters the set when they are ready for work again. He makes a wonderful hit, and after the scene is taken he goes to the manager's office and is given a contract at one thousand dollars a week. Leaving the manager's office he is seen by the detective, who comes to Universal City, and running around the studio, Timothy outwits and loses him. The detective then comes upon his double as he is awakening from the knockout potion Timothy administered to him and makes the arrest. Timothy then is advertised extensively by the Universal Company and is on the road to fame and fortune.