Bait

“Alvin Sanders is going to help the Feds catch a killer. He just doesn't know it yet.”

Alvin Sanders (Jamie Foxx) is a small-time thief who gets locked up for a petty theft and just wants to get out and start over with his girlfriend, Lisa (Kimberly Elise). His cellmate turns out to be half of the pair that stole the Federal Reserve gold. Antoine Fuqua follows Alvin out of prison on a Treasury investigator's terms, where Edgar Clenteen (David Morse) is the one who needs him, and Alvin believes his luck has finally turned.