Her real intention is to swap bags there with Melanie and Louis, supposedly passing off the $500,000 under Nicolette's nose. In a large shopping mall near Los Angeles (the real Del Amo Fashion Center, which is portrayed as it exists in the film), Jackie buys a new suit and enters a dressing room. After a dry run, during which Nicolette could observe the operation, the stage is set for the actual event. Unbeknownst to the others, Jackie plans to deceive them both with the help of Cherry in order to keep the $500,000 for herself. With Jackie's help, Nicolette and Dargus arrange a sting to catch Ordell, unaware that Jackie and Ordell plan to double cross them by diverting the actual money before the authorities make an arrest. He also uses a naïve Southern girl, Sheronda (Lisa Gay Hamilton).
To carry out this plan, Ordell employs a woman he lives with, "my little blond surfer girl" Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda), plus his friend, Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), a former cellmate. But using a gun she borrows from Cherry, Jackie barters a deal with Ordell whereby she will pretend to help the authorities while still managing to smuggle $500,000 of Ordell's money, enough to allow him to retire. Later that night, Ordell arrives at Jackie's house intending to murder her. Max Cherry arrives to pick her up and, only partly masking his physical attraction, offers to buy her a drink and help determine her legal options. Sensing that Jackie may be just as likely to inform as Livingston had been, Ordell arranges her bail. She initially refuses to deal with Nicolette and Dargus, so is sent to jail on possession of drugs with intent to sell. Acting on information Livingston had indeed shared, ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and LAPD detective Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) intercept Jackie as she arrives in the United States with Ordell's cash and some cocaine that Brown was unaware was stashed along with the cash. Fearing that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for his bail with bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) and promptly leads Livingston to his death. Ordell learns that another of his workers, Beaumont Livingston (Chris Tucker), has been arrested. Jackson), a gun runner under the close watch of the ATF.
Despite the low pay, the job enables her to smuggle money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Living in the Los Angeles area in 1995, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, the latest step down for her career.