PLOT

Doc gets a damsel in distress call from Jade, who turns out to be in no distress at all. He ends up speaking to Jason Velveeta, her self-styled pimp, who says the Golden Fang is a heroin cartel. Later he bumps into Coy Harlingen again, who only wants to be back with his wife and daughter.

Not a lot to say about this chapter, other than that the description of the Golden Fang’s operation as a ‘vertical package’ that finances, grows, processes and distriubtes the drugs is little different to that of a corporation (p.159).

Here’s the song that gets to Doc, Roger and Hart’s ‘It Never Entered My Mind’

Here are the lyrics to the song sung on p.160, Dietz and Schwartz’s ‘Alone Together’, which seem a comment on community, and solidarity, but maybe also their limits.

Alone together, beyond the crowd,

Above the world, we’re not too proud

To cling together, We’re strong

As long as we’re together.

Alone together, the blinding rain

The starless night, were not in vain;

For we’re together, and what is there

To fear together.

Our love is as deep as the sea,

Our love is as great as a love can be,

And we can weather the great unknown,

If we’re alone together.

p. 162 A nice piece of genre-appropriate writing here, with the right amount of sentiment.