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Brick
High school student Brendan Frye discovers a note directing him to a pay phone, where he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich, begging him for help. She mentions a "bad brick", "the Pin", and "Tug" before abruptly hanging up, apparently afraid of a passing black Ford Mustang, from which a distinctively-branded cigarette is thrown. Unable to locate Emily, Brendan enlists his friend Brain for help. An encounter with another ex-girlfriend, Kara, leads him to a party held by flirtatious upper-class girl Laura Dannon and her boyfriend, Brad Bramish. Laura points Brendan to Dode, Emily's drug-addicted new boyfriend, who arranges a meeting with Emily.
Emily dismisses the phone call as a mistake and tells Brendan to let her go. Brendan steals her notepad and finds a note that leads him to her dead body in a tunnel the following morning where he is beaten by an unidentified assailant. Brendan decides to investigate her murder, hiding the body deeper within the tunnel to avoid police involvement. With help from Brain, Brendan realizes that "the Pin" refers to a local kingpin. Brendan picks a fight with Brad, hoping to attract the Pin's attention. Later, a man wearing a beanie attacks Brendan.
Later Brendan sees the black Mustang in a parking lot and is attacked by the beanie-wearing thug as he demands to meet the Pin instead of fighting back. The man, revealed as Tug, the Pin's main enforcer, takes Brendan to the Pin's house. Laura reveals that she was at the Pin's house as well and drives Brendan back to school. She explains that Emily stole a "brick" of heroin after being rejected by the Pin's operation. Laura offers to help Brendan, but he distrusts her.
The next day, the Pin hires Brendan. Dode calls Brendan and says he saw Brendan hide Emily's body and believes Brendan killed Emily. Brendan meets the Pin, who suspects that Tug is planning to betray him. At the Pin's house, Tug tells Brendan that the Pin had bought ten bricks of heroin and eight were sold off wholesale, the ninth was stolen and returned contaminated, and the final brick remains to be sold. The Pin reveals that Tug was also romantically involved with Emily.
Brendan intercepts Dode on the way to the meeting and discovers Emily was pregnant when she died; Dode believes the baby was his. Brendan arrives at the meeting to find Dode demanding money to reveal who killed Emily. Tug goes berserk and shoots Dode in the head, then threatens the Pin, who walks away as Brendan faints. Brendan awakens in Tug's bedroom, and Tug tells him they are at war with the Pin.
Brendan arranges a meeting between the two and waits in Tug's bedroom. Laura comforts him as he grieves for Emily, and he recognizes her cigarette as the same brand that was dropped from the Mustang during the call with Emily. At the meeting, chaos erupts when it is discovered that the tenth brick is missing. Tug beats the Pin to death while Brendan flees, escaping just as police arrive. As he goes, he passes the open trunk of Tug's car, where he has placed Emily's body to ensure that police blame her murder on Tug.
The next day, Brendan meets Laura at the school. She reveals that Tug died after a shootout with the police. Brendan explains that he knows Laura set Emily up to take the fall for Laura's theft of the ninth brick, then manipulated Emily into meeting Tug, who panicked and killed her after she told him he was the father of her unborn child. Brendan has written a note to the school administration stating that the tenth brick is in Laura's locker. Laura vindictively tells Brendan that Emily did not want to keep the baby because she did not love the father, and that Emily was three months pregnant when she died, meaning the unborn child was his. The movie ends with Brendan and Brain on the football field watching Laura walk away.