Joanie is contemplating it as well, and runs into the Bella Union, telling Cy there's trouble at her place. He smartassedly asks where Sheriff Bullock is when you need him. Joanie is so frightened. She asks Cy if Doris had mentioned Wolcott beating on her, because that's the nature of the trouble she's talking about. The blood drains from Cy's face -- or, you know, we can assume it does, since Powers Boothe has on so much makeup, you can't really tell -- and he starts immediately for the door, growling that she's not to follow him. Joanie yells at the bartender to give her all the money he has, and tells Lila to run out and flag down Mr. Utter and have him arrange for a wagon. I'm loving Joanie this season and if they kill her off...so help me...

At the Gem, Al is having his meeting with the SFC, Mr. Lee. He has Dan get out two bags of gold, trying to buy the dude off. The SFC stands in silence. Al tells Dan to open the bags, so that the SFC can verify that it's really gold. Surprising everyone, Lee says, in perfect English, "I know. I don't want it." Al gives him an eyebrow. "Anyways," he says, "good meetin' you." Dan shows Lee the door, and Al calls for Wu to come out from where he was hiding behind the bedroom door. Wu says, in his way, that it's obvious the SFC has "juice." Al: "If twenty don't tempt him to converse, you're fuckin'-A right. Maybe you and me should be workin' for him." Wu does the International Sign for Wu-Swedgin Love again, and Al nods, but gives him the brush, as it's been a "long fuckin' day." Dan puts the twenty thousand back in the safe while Al theorizes that Lee, being from San Fran, is connected to Hearst. "You think Hearst and the chink's connected?" Dan asks. "You think he was born," Al answers, "looking down his nose at twenty thousand?"

Back at the Chez Amie, Cy is reviewing the scene, and gagging. Pulling himself together, he tells Wolcott, "Chief fact is, no witnesses are extant." Wolcott worries that Joanie had seen him there. Cy quickly brushes over this, though, saying he needn't worry about her, since she hadn't seen him kill anybody. Cy says he'll take care of the situation, and that Mr. W should go back to the Grand Central, have a meal -- "if you can stand the food" -- and not to worry.