After numerous vicissitudes in an effort to enter the studio Jerry obtains a job as an actor with a motion picture company. He examines everything, and soon gets into trouble. The company proceeds into the slums to take some exteriors. Jerry, playing a detective, with a shining badge pinned to his coat, is very proud and shows off before a pretty girl who appears at a window. The girl flirts with him and following her he gets into a den of thieves. The girl believed him to be harmless but upon seeing the badge surmises he is an officer. She summons her brother crooks, who attack Jerry and throw him Into a closet, believing him unconscious. But Jerry has divined that his assailants are crooks, and climbing out of a window he summons a policeman, who telephones for a patrol. Meanwhile the director has requisitioned the services of one of the crooks. The police find the crook and arrest him. Jerry and other officers go into the house and soon emerge with the crooks and loot; and all are carted off to the police station. The zealous cameraman photographs the entire proceedings. At the police station the difficulties are unraveled and Jerry, to gain the good will of the policemen, photographs them, though not with much success, as the exposed film rolls into his pocket instead of the camera magazine.