Later, she and Emory look at a surveillance video from a few nights earlier. She was hooked on drugs by Ben and wants to do the same to his daughter. He's worried about the danger Ben presents, and wants to kill Audrey, but Blackie prefers a blackmail plot for vengeance as well as profit. Blackie offers a chilling, smiling threat: "You don't know what trouble is, not by a long shot."īlackie doses a gagged and bound Audrey with heroin as Emory videotapes. Behind Blackie is Emory Battis, the head of Horne's Department Store, who has just informed her that this disobedient prostitute is none other than Audrey Horne, the boss' daughter.
When you work for me, everybody's your type."īlackie hangs up the new girl's telephone right as she tearfully informs someone that she's in trouble. No offense." Offended, Blackie offers a corrective while the guards grip the disobedient employee: "I don't want to hear another complaint about you. Blackie scolds her for refusing a customer the night before, asking what "her type" is (with more than a little sexual interest) to which the snickering teenager responds, "Not you. The new girl visits Blackie while she is being massaged by two employees. She curses him while preparing her torniquet for injection. After some cruel mockery and intimidation he drops a little baggie of heroin on her desk and departs. When Ben Horne signs an important contract at One Eyed Jack's that evening, Blackie directs to him to the newest "new girl." Meanwhile, she's growing desperate for a fix back in he office she asks Jerry why Ben is holding out on her.
She selects the queen of diamonds and Blackie caresses her hand approvingly. When she returns to the office, dressed in a frilly white outfit, Blackie asks her to choose a playing card to be sewed on the front. To rescue the interview, "Hester" retrieves a cherry from a drink on Blackie's desk, places it in her mouth and, after sloshing it around a little bit, removes a stem that has been tied into a perfect knot by her tongue. The girl introduces herself as Hester Prynne ("I read The Scarlet Letter in high school too," Blackie shoots back at her) and concocts a resume including time at Big Amos' in Calgary ("Big Amos is the name of my dog," Blackie chuckles after trapping the young woman). In Blackie's office, last weekend's new girl escorts the latest "new girl" in a black dress, another recruit from the perfume counter at Horne's Department Store. There's a fine line between suspicion ("you look like a cop") and attraction ("tonight might be your lucky night"). They flirt and tease each other - it's evident they don't want to reveal their true identities, with one of them saying he owns a gas station but is also an oral surgeon. One has a bushy moustache and big curly hair, while the other (whom she compares to Cary Grant) wears glasses and a tuxedo. A bemused Blackie and disappointed Jerry return to the bar.īlackie notices a couple men in the casino and chats them up. Ben recites William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (contrasting her favorably to a summer day, for "thy eternal summer shall not fade.") but Jerry interrupts them to inquire after "the new girl." Blackie indicates a nervous young woman standing in the curtained hallway, Ben and Jerry flip a coin, and Ben - the winner - disappears with the first-time prostitute into the folds of the curtains.
She greets Ben Horne, the owner of Jack's, and his brother Jerry at the bar. Black Rose O'Reilly makes a bold entrance, parting the red sea of her crimson-clad employees to emerge into the front room of One Eyed Jack's, a Canadian bordello.
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