charlie visits sweet cakes, a local strip-club owned by vic and run by renata crest, a woman whom charlie has long lusted after. she quickly deciphers that he's hiding something. he hints at the existence of the money, and she suggests they run away together. before they can do that however, she asks charlie to steal an incriminating picture of herself and a local politician from vic. after talking to his friend sidney, a bouncer at sweet cakes, charlie goes to another strip club owned by vic, and takes the photo from a safe. before he can leave, roy gelles, one of guerrards enforcers, arrives looking for charlie. charlie hides in the men's restroom as gelles enters. roy reads aloud a limerick written in red marker on the wall above the urinal. after evading gelles, charlie goes to a local restaurant/bar and runs into his friend pete, who is married to charlie's ex-wife sarabeth. pete is very drunk, and decides to tag along with charlie for as long as it takes to pass out. charlie calls vic from a pay phone, noticing the same limerick in red marker above the phone. he frantically tells vic that gelles is in town, but vic dismisses this news, saying that gelles has family in wichita.