Cobb notices the laconic, friendly stationmaster of he small town named Mal (Spencer Charters): "I spy a native.He was the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher - noted for his all-seeing, moving glass eye, powerful magic skills, disregard for rules and for teaching illegal lessons in his classroom, artificial leg (and limp), and ever-present drinking flask.The Girl is introduced at the dock, a winsome street waif with a "bruised little body." She is hunched over, presumably from all the beatings she has received for every imaginable infraction dreamed up by her father.Bill escaped by climbing up the side of the building to the roof to elude he cop - as the vengeful Law threatened and vowed to arrest him he next time:"YOU""LL DO TIME FOR THIS! THE FIRST TIME I LAY EYES ON YOU AGAIN, I""LL PINCH YOU!"Later, Bill boasted to Harold: "Shucks, you ain""t seen nothin"" - I could climb one sixteen-stories high - blindfolded.