Beelze: Don’t be so excited. It all seems a little hinky to me. The police never found evidence of foul play and you still don’t have any evidence and you have no idea what Evil Dog knows anyway.

Georgette: Evidence? What other evidence do I need? The police simply couldn’t figure out how she did it. Bonita convinced my father to take me out of his will and then she killed him. Evil Dog knows it and soon the world will know it, too.

Beelze: Don’t get your hopes up.

Georgette: (pleading) Why can’t you just be excited for me, Beelze?

Beelze: A happy customer is no customer at all.

Georgette: Oh, come on Beelze. You can’t mean that.

Beelze: Look around, Georgette. How many happy people do you see in here?

Georgette: Not this time. You’re not going to get me down. But you can help me. Where’s Evil Dog?

Beelze: You’re looking for trouble, Georgette. You don’t go searching for a mob boss. (deadly serious) If he has business with you, he’ll find you.

(Just then, Pips enters.)

Georgette: (determined) I’m not waiting.

Beelze: (pointing to Pips) Then maybe you need to talk to him.

Pips: Hey, Beelze.

Beelze: I might have drummed up some business for you. (walks back behind the bar)

Georgette: Business?

Beelze: Yeah, he’s a private eye.

Pips: (pulls out a business card and his notepad) Detective Pips Domino. And you are?

Georgette: Georgette Vanbushenbury.

Pips: (very interested) Any relation to Bonita Vanbushenbury?

Georgette: (seriously sarcastic) The murderer? Yes. That’s my stepmother.

Pips: Why does Beelze think you got some business for me?

Georgette: I have to find Evil Dog. Ever hear of him?

Pips: (tries not to show his shock as he begins scribbling notes) His name seems to be floating around lately. What business do you have with him?

Georgette: He has evidence that would prove my father was murdered.

Pips: How do you know that?

Georgette: A couple of his lackeys were spitting on about how Evil Dog knew the truth about my stepmother.

Pips: A couple of lackey’s?

Georgette: Beelze knows them. Don’t you, Beelze.

Beelze: Just a couple of fakaloo artists takin’ her for a rube. I gave ‘em the up and down but that’s all.

Pips: You seen them before?

Beelze: Yeah. They were bothering Stella yesterday. I had a mind to call copper on ‘em.

Pips: That would be the last thing you’d do, Beelze. You don’t want them to know the way you bunco some around here.

Georgette: (to Pips) Evil Dog contacted my stepmother.

Pips: (surprised) How do you know that?

Georgette: She called me this morning. She thinks I got her in dutch with him. I didn’t have anything to do with it. I don’t even know who Evil Dog is. I want to know what’s going on. Can you help me?

Pips: I can get a slant. A pair of Cs will get me started and we can talk about the rest once I find Mr. Dog.