"Yeah, well they shot me, Dan. All I did was beat them down with a shoe."

"My shoe" He takes the flip flop back a second time, "Don't worry, I got the plates of the car. The police can handle them. You wanna see this happy ending though?"

"Uhhhhhhh sure?"

Dan pulls some an old thin rope out of his pocket and fashions a leash for Lorelei, who is still terrified and quivering, but secured no. The three of them stroll back through the park and across the city, looking to the entire world like a normal pair of people out walking their dog in the middle of the night. They end up in an upper middle class residential area. The house they stop outside is quaint itself, but the lawn was straight out of better homes and gardens. Dan walked up to ring the doorbell.

"Who lives here, Dan?"

"My client, obviously."

"That's…vague."

At the doorbell's alarm, a chorus of barking rises up from inside. An older woman with short white hair and a grandmotherly face answers, "Who is it? Oh Mr. Grovesner!" A pack of all different kinds of dogs is yipping, milling, and wagging behind her, "You found my little Lorelei!"

"Grovesner?"

Dan ignores his cohort, "Yep, found her off in the Hermosa Park, scared and alone. Thought I'd bring her home."

"And I helped." Jack said hugging Dan with one arm and that cocky grin of his.

"Well, why don't you come in and I'll..." She eyes the 'helper'. The dogs loose some of their enthusiasm, and few even begin to growl, "Isn't that nice. Why don't you wait out here while I get Mr. Grovesner his payment? The dogs don't seem to care for you dearie." She ushers Dan inside leaving jack alone on the stoop with the efficiency only a woman her age could master.

"Aww, but you seem so nice…" Jack is left saying to himself, alone on the front step looking like a kicked dog himself.

Dan reappears five minutes later. His client and her dogs close behind, "Take care dearie. Thank you again! And stay out of trouble."

"Anytime, anytime. You take care yourself." He claps Jack on the shoulder and turns him back down the front walk.