It got very late, seeing as Cherry had no place to stay, Eddie decided to let her come to his office. Cherry saw the names Valiant & Valiant. Cherry thought Eddie must had a brother, cousin, nephew, or some sort of relative working with him, but they stayed quiet as they came inside his office.

"You can stay here for the night," Eddie told her quietly. "I promise, that bed is a lot more comfortable than it looks."

"Thanks, Mr. Valiant." Cherry said, quietly.

"Call me Eddie." the detective said, turning on the light to show her the office.

Cherry looked all around with wonder. She saw Eddie's desk, but a desk across from him completely dusty and looked as though it hadn't been cleaned in years. Eddie put his hat up and went with her to get some rest after a long day of work. He took the photographs off the hanger as Cherry tried to get herself settled. She spotted some photographs and looked with Eddie as he put away the Jessica and Marvin pictures.

"Is that you and the waitress in Catalina?" Cherry asked, looking with him to see the new pictures.

"Yeah, that was a long time ago," Eddie told her, looking through the beach pictures. He actually seemed happy for once. "We were in Catalina. It was a great time."

"Who's that?" Cherry pointed to the new pictures of Eddie having fun with a guy without Dolores in the pictures.

Eddie's smile disappeared. "That's my brother..."

"He seems like a lot of fun," Cherry smiled. "Where is he? On vacation?"

"He's dead." Eddie said, gravely.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Cherry said, quietly. "W-What happened?"

Eddie flipped through the pictures and looked at old framed pictures with his brother, some old newspaper articles of him and his brother saving Goofy and rescuing Donald Duck's kidnapped nephews. "I might as well tell ya... He was killed... By a Toon..."

"A toon?" Cherry's eyes widened.

"Yeah," Eddie nodded, shakily. "The same Toon who killed Bambi's mother."

Cherry winced at that.

"Teddy and I were on another case involving Toons, we always loved doing Toon business, we loved them like they were our family members entertaining us for hours like you crazy kids these days," Eddie continued. "However, there was one about 15 stories high up from us... He was a nasty Toon... He was about to drop on us with a piano. I broke my arm, Teddy never made it... It landed flat on his head."

"Oh, Eddie... I'm so sorry." Cherry frowned.

Eddie released a sharp sigh. "Whatever, I gotta move on..."

"Is that why you're so against Toons these days?" Cherry asked.

"Ya got it, kid... Now, get some sleep, I've had a long day." Eddie tucked her into his bed and went to keep looking around in his photographs.

"I wonder where Atticus is?" Cherry asked herself, then fell asleep. She had a long day too so she fell right asleep into the bed, finding it a little comfortable and cushy.


The next morning, Cherry was bright and awake while Eddie had fallen asleep at his desk with a beer bottle in his hand. Cherry came out of the bathroom after she finished grooming herself once a bottle hit a metal can, snapping Eddie awake as well.

"Oh, Lieutenant Santino." Eddie looked sharp at the new man in the office. "Where'd you come from?"

Cherry shrugged, she hadn't seen the man come in either.

"Gee Whiz, Eddie, if you needed money so bad, why didn't you come to me?" Santino asked, seeing the photographs between Acme and Jessica. "And to what? Keep you company with a little girl?"

"I'm a guest, sir." Cherry stated.

"So I took a couple of dirty pictures, so kill me." Eddie shrugged, pouring himself another glass of alcohol.

"I already got a stiff neck on my hands, thank you." Santino answered.

"Huh?" Cherry and Eddie asked.

"Marvin Acme," Santino confirmed. "The rabbit and some kid kacked him last night."

"What?" Eddie breathed, finding that hard to believe.


Eddie took Cherry into his car to examine the crime scene. "Okay, you let me do the talkin', kid. This place can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doin'." he left the car, going inside Acme's factory.

"Mr. Valiant, I had been watching cartoons since I came out of the womb, I can probably help you solve this, even if Atticus wanted to be the detective." Cherry remarked, following him.

There was distant laughing, which stopped them. They looked far behind a brick wall to see a laughing sun with a magical rainbow and cheerfulness throughout the area.

"What now?" Santino, seeing him see a bit squeamish at the cartoonish background.

"It's just I haven't been this close to Toon Town for a while." Eddie replied.

There came out a shooting man with his butt on fire. Cherry stepped back and saw it was classic Yosemite Sam.

"My biscuits are burnin'! Fire in the hatch! Oh, great horny toads, that smarts!" Sam placed his butt in a puddle and cooled down instantly.

"I never did like that varmint, always tryin' to put down Bugs Bunny." Cherry scoffed.

"Come on, you two, let's get this over with." Santino told Cherry and Eddie, going inside Acme's old factory. "They're with me." he told the security guard as they walked inside the place.


Cherry and Eddie came to see a safe had been dropped on a chalk outline. Not a Toon safe, that couldn't hurt you, but it was a real life safe. Now, that would hurt. Cherry now had to wonder if the person who did it to Acme couldn't had been Roger and this accused kid, but the same Toon that killed Eddie's brother.

"Just like a toon to drop a safe on a guy's head." one of the detectives scoffed.

Santino glanced at Eddie, seeing he seemed sour about that, having his brother go out the same way. "Sorry Eddie, you and your, I dunno, niece better wait here, alright?" he then walked off to investigate.

Cherry and Eddie looked around as the detectives worked. They could see that upstairs that Jessica Rabbit was talking with somebody in Acme's office on her way down.

"Hey, Chisold, get a load of this." one of the detectives took an old dynamite with a fuse.

"You seen one of these, kiddo?" a cop took out a black hole, showing it to Cherry.

"Oh, that's a classic." Cherry held it in her hands and slapped it onto a wall, putting her hand in and out.

"Hey, guys!" another detective called, holding a giant mallet. The mallet sprung out a boxing glove fist and knocked down some boxes, and came in and out and closed up, noticing Eddie. "Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant?"

The guys laughed at Eddie. He must have had a bad reputation sometime after the death and murder of his brother.

"Or did you change your name to Jack Daniels?" the man continued, taunting him.

Eddie rolled his eyes and went to investigate the safe with Cherry. "What's that?" he noticed some yellow smudges over the rope with some finger prints.

"Paint from the rabbit's glove and fingerprints from the human kid." the man taking samples told him.

"Mr. Valiant and little girl?" a voice came behind.

Cherry and Eddie turned to see Jessica Rabbit, looking saucy at them.

Jessica then slapped Eddie clear across his face and shoved Cherry over on her backside. "I hope you're proud of yourselves and those pictures you took!" she then stormed away from them.

Some cops went to take away Acme's corpse, but one of the cops fell over a closed crate with cartoon shoes like Nazi boots, clown shoes, pink slippers, green heels, and brown loafs. The cops had trouble with them and tried to capture them before they got loose into town. Cherry tried to grab some, but some of the shoes walked off with her all around as she shoved them into the box with some of the cops.

"Thanks, kid." one cop said.

One of the clown shoes hit one cop in the groin, making him nearly drop Acme's body with his hand opening up and dropping the hand buzzer. Eddie decided to walk over and take the hand buzzer as evidence, but a cane dropped on his hand, buzzing it, and making him grunt in pain. Cherry went with him and the two looked up to see a man dressed in all black with a flat hat on his head, wearing nearly sunglasses and gloves looking nearly like the Undertaker.

"Are this man and this child removing evidence from the scene of a crime?" the man demanded.

"Uh, no, Judge Doom, Valiant and his little friend here were just pickin' it up for ya." Santino covered up. "Weren't ya, Eddie?"

Cherry shrugged and gestured for Eddie to give the buzzer to the nice, scary looking man.

"Hand it over." Doom demanded with his hand open.

"Sure." Eddie agreed, slapping his hands around Doom's hand, buzzing and jolting him. "His number one seller."

Doom eerily grinned at them. "I see working for a Toon has rubbed off on you."

"I wasn't workin' for a Toon, I was workin' for RK Maroon." Eddie defended.

Cherry couldn't help but snicker at the rhyme.

"Yes, we talked to Mr. Maroon," Doom agreed, still bearing a frightening look on his face. "He told us the rabbit and another kid you know became quite agitated when you showed the rabbit the pictures. The rabbit said, 'one way or another, he and his wife were going to be happy' and the other kid you know went to help him. Isn't that true?"

Cherry had to silently agree. Atticus did offer to go and help keep Roger comfort and company even though it was late last night.

"Hey, pal, do we look like stenographers?" Eddie mocked Doom.

"Shut your yap, Eddie," Santino sneered. "The man's a judge."

"That's alright, Lieutenant," Doom said, coolly. "From the smell of them, I'd say it was the booze talking. No matter, the rabbit and kid won't get far, my men will find them."

"Who's your men?" Cherry asked, with her hands on her hips.

Suddenly, the doors busted open with a car and loud horns blared right in. The car stopped and made a swerving, sharp turn, knocking some boxes over.

"Weasels!" Santino gasped.

"Yes," Doom replied. "I find they have a special gift for the work."

"Who are those weasels?" Cherry asked.

"They the Toon Patrol, they are called Psycho, Greasy, Smarty, Wheezy, and Stupid."

"Alright, ya mugs, fall out!" Smarty, the leader said, getting out of the car first with the others following.

"Did you find the rabbit and kid?" Doom asked.

"Don't worry, Judge," Smarty assured him. "We got 'deformants' all over the city. We'll find 'em."

Cherry shuddered at the weasels. They had to be the most hideous cartoon characters she had ever seen and was probably good she had never seen them in a cartoon.

"You wouldn't have any idea where the rabbit might be, Mr. Valiant and little girl?" Doom asked.

"Have you tried Walla Walla?" Eddie asked, stalling him. "Cucamonga? I hear Kokomo's very nice this time of year."

"Rabbit and kid? What rabbit and kid?" Cherry said, innocently.

"I'm surprised you're not more cooperative, Mr. Valiant," Doom came toward them, dangerously close. "A human has been murdered by a Toon and little boy. Don't you appreciate the magnitude of that?"

Suddenly there was random squeaking. Doom looked to find the source of the sound and looked down to see a Toon clown shoe by his leg.

Doom took out an extra rubber glove to capture the Toon and get rid of it for good. "Since I've had Toon Town under my jurisdiction, my goal has been to reign in the insanity. And the only way to do that is to make Toons respect the law." he then grabbed the clown shoe as it tried to escape, but it was no use. Doom chuckled and went with the shoe to his weasel minions.

"How did that gargoyle get to be a judge?" Eddie asked, whispering to his lieutenant.

"Spread a bunch of simoleons around Toon Town a couple of years back, bought the election." Santino explained.

"What is that stuff?" Cherry pointed to a tank Doom opened of what appeared to be revolting acid.

"Remember how they always thought there wasn't a way to kill a Toon?" Santino answered with a question to explain. "Well, Doom found a way. Turpentine, acetone, benzene. He calls it 'The Dip'."

"I'll catch the rabbit and kid, Mr. Valiant," Doom spoke up, about to dip the clown shoe. "Then I'll try to convinct them and execute them..."

The clown shoe whimpered over the dip. It then got a splash of the dip and squeaked in pain and misery as it was slowly being killed before Eddie and Cherry's eyes, much to their horror. Instantly, the clown shoe was killed and no more as the weasels laughed at its sudden death and Doom looked eerily at the detective and young girl.

"That's one dead shoe, eh boss?" Wheezy laughed a little.

Doom's hand dripped with red paint, it almost looked like blood. He came forth to the new found duo. "They're not kid gloves, Mr. Valiant and little girl. This is how we handle things down in Toon Town. I'd think you of all people would appreciate that." he then balled a fist in his glove with the dripping paint.


After that cringing sequence, Cherry and Eddie went up to take a break from the case. Ironic how Atticus wanted to be the detective, yet Cherry was the one solving mysteries and Cherry wanted to be with the Toons, but Atticus was with Roger. They then saw beside Eddie's office, there was a woman with a baby carriage. She then took out a lighter and started to put it in the carriage.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute!" Eddie rushed over to stop her, but it was shown she was lighting another cigar for Baby Herman.

"I'll never watch Maroon Cartoons the same way again." Cherry mumbled, seeing Herman smoking a cigar and not being cute and innocent like in his cartoons with Roger.

"I've been trying to make him quit, but he just won't listen to me." the woman said, waving away the awful smoke.

"Whatya know, ya dumb broad?" Baby Herman scoffed in his gruff voice. "You got the IQ of a rattle! You Valiant and that little girl?"

"Yeah." Cherry and Eddie answered.

"I wanna talk to you two about the Acme murder," Baby Herman told them, then turned to his possible girlfriend. "Hey, doll, why don't you run downstairs and get me a racin' form?" he then slapped her butt.

The woman called out, then glared at him. "Okay, okay, I'm goin'!" she walked off.

"A ladies man, huh?" Eddie remarked.

"Isn't she like old enough to be your mommy?" Cherry joked.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Baby Herman scoffed at her. "My problem is I got a 50 year old lust and a three year old dinky."

"Yeah, must be tough." Eddie said.

"Look Valiant and little girl, the rabbit and your friend Atticus or whatever his name is didn't kill Acme," Baby Herman explained why he wanted to talk with them. "They're not murders, I don't know Atticus as well as you do, little girl, but I should know about the rabbit, he's a dear friend of mine. I tell you, guys, the whole thing stinks like yesterday's diapers! Look at this," Herman took out the newspaper article about Atticus and Roger killing Acme. "The paper said Acme left no will. That's a load of succotash!"

"I'll say, if I were in charge of cartoons, I'd leave it to you guys." Cherry agreed. "I can't believe I just agreed with a baby..."

"Every Toon knows Acme had a will, doll face," Baby Herman continued. "He promised to leave Toon Town to us Toons or the next best cartoonist besides RK Maroon. That wall and possible cartoonist's been a son he bumped off."

"Has anybody ever seen this will?" Eddie asked the baby.

"Uh, no," Herman shrugged. "But he gave us his solemn oath!"

"Hey, can I draw you real quick?" Cherry asked, taking out her sketchpad.

"Make sure ya get my good side." Baby Herman smiled and posed for her.

Cherry drew under thirty seconds and showed Baby Herman the photograph.

"My butt is not that big!" Baby Herman scolded.

"It's baby fat." Cherry shrugged.

"Oh, well you're good, you could be the next RK Maroon!" Baby Herman smiled at her, then looked at her coyly. "Say, what're you doin' this weekend, kid?"

"If you believe that joker could do anything solid, the gag's on you, pal!" Eddie turned Herman's carriage around and walked off.

"I just figured since you were the one who got my pal in trouble, you might wanna help him out." Baby Herman told Eddie. "I can pay ya!"

Eddie didn't like the sound of being paid by a cartoon character. "Save your money for a pair of elevator shoes!" he then kicked the carriage away.

Baby Herman wailed as he was rolled away and bumped into his girl, knocking the cigar out of his clutches. "My stogie!" he then cried, obnoxiously and immaturely. On a baby, it's cute, but with Herman's natural voice, it sounded awkward and childish.

Eddie and Cherry glanced at him and Eddie slammed the door behind them.