DUGAN: (Coming down C.) Yes, he's tickled to death to see you, ain't you, Billy?
EEL: (Angrily.) The Eel to you, Copper; Billy to my pals.
INSPECTOR: Well, Billy!
EEL: That's right, Inspector, you're my pal. (Movement from INSPECTOR.) Oh, I ain't forgot when you was just a plain Bull and saved me from doin' my first bit on a phoney charge. They tried to railroad me, you remember, and Dugan here was runnin' the engine.
INSPECTOR: Oh, you've got Dugan wrong, Billy, he bears you no malice.
EEL: No, it's a mistake, he just loves me. Say, he thinks so much of me, that if he saw me drowning, he'd bring me a glass of water.
DUGAN: You know why you were brought here?
EEL: Sure, so's you could railroad me again.
INSPECTOR: Nonsense, Dugan has nothing against you personally.
EEL: Oh yes he has; when he was new on the force, I beat him up good. He was only a harness cop then, and one night he thought he made me coppin' a super from a lush, which you know ain't my graft. He started to fan me with a sap, so I just clubbed my smoke wagon, and before I got through with him, I made him a pick-up for the ambulance, and he ain't never forgot it.