Up until this time, the two were close, but Bob falls out with Pop over this situation and quits college to look for a job.

Bob, disgusted with his father's lawyer, goes to see Dwyer's attorney, an old former judge named Emmett T. Brennan.

Waiting outside Brennan's apartment, Bob, calling himself Johnny, meets the gangster's girlfriend, Lucky Dubarry.

Lucky pretends she knows Bob, and he, not wanting to disclose his identify at all, when asked by Brennan tells them both his full name is Johnny Apollo (taking the surname from the neon sign marquee visible through the window on the dance-club across the street).

But after he leaves, his father discovers from a guard that his son, 'Johnny Apollo', is now a criminal, and a disgusted Pop Cain wants nothing to do with him.

does not accept, but counteroffers: he will drop all pending charges against Apollo, in exchange for evidence on Dwyer.

Brennan accepts, knowing Apollo is essentially a good man, and that Lucky is in love with him.

A jailbreak is set in motion, but Lucky is able to sneak word of it to Pop, who prevents his son from getting involved.