<P> The Dude's car is found by the police without the ransom money, and he reclaims it . Later, while cruising around in the car, the Dude finds the homework assignment of a high school student named Larry inside . Assuming that Larry was the one who stole the car, Walter and the Dude go to his house, believing Larry has also stolen the money . When Larry refuses to respond to Walter and the Dude's threats, Walter wrecks a new sports car parked outside which they assume Larry bought with the money . However, a neighbor rushes outside, reveals himself as having just bought the car and angrily wrecks the Dude's car in revenge, thinking it to be Walter's . </P> <P> The Dude is then forcibly brought before Treehorn, who asks the whereabouts of Bunny and says he wants the money she owes him . He drugs the Dude's White Russian cocktail, causing the Dude to have a dream sequence involving Maude and bowling . The Dude awakens in police custody, where he is verbally and physically assaulted by the Malibu police chief . During the cab ride home, the Dude gets thrown out after he asks the cab driver to change the radio station playing an Eagles song . A red sports car zooms past and the viewer sees that Bunny is driving with all her toes intact . </P> <P> The Dude then finds his bungalow completely trashed and is greeted by Maude, who seduces him . He figures that Treehorn drugged him so that his goons could look for the ransom money at the Dude's home . After Maude has sex with him, she says she hopes to conceive a child . The Dude protests being a father but Maude tells him that he will not be involved in the child's upbringing . Maude also explains that her father has no money: her mother was the wealthy one and she left her money exclusively to the family charity . Having an epiphany, the Dude and Walter travel to the Lebowski estate, while the Dude explains: when Lebowski, who apparently hated his wife, heard of the kidnapping, he withdrew money from the foundation, kept it for himself and gave the Dude a briefcase without any money in it, lying that it contained a million dollar ransom . The kidnapping was also a ruse: when Bunny took an unannounced trip, her friends (the nihilists) faked a kidnapping to be able to extort money from Lebowski . Walter and the Dude confront the Big Lebowski, who refuses to admit responsibility but is thrown out of his wheelchair by Walter, who believes that he's faking his paralysis . </P> <P> The affair apparently over, the Dude and his bowling teammates return to the bowling alley . As they leave, they are confronted in the parking lot by the nihilists, who have set the Dude's car on fire . They once again demand the ransom money . Even after the Dude and Walter explain they don't have the money, the nihilists try to rob them anyway . Walter violently beats all three, biting the ear off of one . However, in all the excitement, Donny suffers a fatal heart attack . </P>

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