Valley Community Players: Funny Money April 4, 2008

Henry A. Perkins, a mild-mannered CPA, accidently picks up the wrong briefcase -- one full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book a one-way ticket to Barcelona, telling his confused wife to leave everything behind. The doorbell rings as they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks that Henry was soliciting in the men's room at the pub where he picked up the wrong briefcase but he was actually counting the cash. Another detective arrives thinking that Henry is dead because a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase has been found floating in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to try to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations. One of Cooney's best!