term for an unidentifiable, most of his life that time and again brings him the big break most men would kill for, only for it to slip through his fingers.

A man named Alvarado, whom Toddy will refer to as "Chinless," answers the door with his massive dobermann which seems to be able to speak English.

In the living room Toddy spots a heavy gold watch on the table, and is introduced to Alvarado's beautiful companion Dolores Chavez.

To demonstrate that he buys gold he picks the watch up off the table, discovering that it weighs ten times what it looks like it should.

Toddy heads back home and finds his room ransacked and Elaine strangled to death with a stocking.

Donald claims to know nothing of Elaine's murder or the gold watch, he merely came upon the scene having gone to the hotel to extort Toddy.

Toddy wrestles with feelings of guilt and relief at Elaine's death, and ponders leaving town, as he will be the prime suspect in her murder.

He tells Toddy his gold supplier wants out of the operation and probably murdered Elaine to frame Alvarado thus blowing the ring's cover.

Meanwhile, a bale bondsman named Airedale Aahrens is hired to bring Elaine into court for her misdemeanor drunk and disorderly.

Later Alvarado reveals he intends to silence them all to conceal his operation and shows Toddy two coffins containing his dobermann and Dolores, both drugged with chloroform.

Milt and Elaine take Toddy and Dolores in a car to the beach to kill them and dispose of their bodies in the ocean.