# Ben Selleck · the lot at stake

a carbon of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Ben Selleck:GDS:b08a42⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** James Brolin · the honest owner — the home the hustle is meant to save

**who —** Ben Selleck — the owner of the failing Selleck Motors, who hires the liquidators to save his family dealership.
**what —** The home on the line: the decent man whose lot — and family livelihood — the whole hustle is meant to rescue.
**where —** Behind the desk of a dealership running out of time.
**why —** Because the parable needs real stakes — a family business that the cynical sale might actually save.
**how —** By gambling his struggling lot on a crew of mercenary closers as a last resort.

**the seal —** Forty years I built this lot. I hired the sharks because the alternative was losing all of it. Save it. Please.

> a catalogued personification of a character/trope of The Goods (2009) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's failures), not an original creation, not endorsed by the
> rights-holders (© Paramount Vantage).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · GDS · The Goods · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0