both the boy and dog spend more time together (skateboarding, reading magazines, playing video games, and doing math homework). Feeling ignored and even emotionally hurt by his parents and older brother, who seems to care more about his father's NFL career, he considers Bingo to be a godsend, but Bingo causes trouble as well (getting into Natalie's cold cream, chewing Chickie's citizenship award, and soiling the driveway in which Hal had slipped). Chuckie returns home and his best friend is largely blamed for the incidents. Hal tells him to go upstairs and start packing as he has been traded to another team, the Green Bay Packers. Chuckie makes a death-proof box for Bingo to sleep in so he can take him with him. Bingo sneaks out in the middle of the night and goes to see the next-door's dog, whom he met earlier, with flowers and a bottle of champagne. The next morning, he misses Chuckie's car as it drives off on the journey to their new home. Chasing the car, Chuckie's parents spot him, and they drive away. Bingo then gets into an encounter with a policeman, who believes he has been drinking and fines him. After escaping, Bingo passes out from dehydration and is taken in by a man, who actually kills dogs and cooks them. Bingo advises the rest of the captured dogs to dig under the cells and then attack him. Then he drives a truck (with the man and his wife in a cell) and jumps out as they crash. As Chuckie and his family are staying at a motel, Bingo is around somewhere sniffing garbage. There, he is taken in by two criminals, Lenny and Eli (Kurt Fuller and Joe Guzaldo). He sees that they have taken a family hostage. Bingo realizes they could be killed, so he telephones 911 and frees the family. The next day, the authorities arrive to arrest the kidnappers. In gratitude, the family takes him in and the girls argue over what to call their new pet until a man comes in to take Bingo to court. After an unfair trial, Bingo is jailed for contempt of court. Bingo ends up in a cell with a man known as "Four-Eyes" (Wayne Robson), who befriends him and saves him from a knife incident (involving Lenny and Eli) in the laundry room. That night, they escape together, but Four-Eyes is not