The police are suspicious of Wally""s motives - they think he may be a thief: "This guy came through that window like he was shot out of a cannon.Walter: I""ll make it thirty-five bucks and not a cent more.Hildy: Walter, are you gonna listen?Walter: But good grief, how much is that other paper gonna pay you?Hildy: There isn""t any other paper." But then, after closing the door on his wife Maria (Teresa Celli), who is rocking their crying infant in the background, he reverses himself: "I guess I can make it all right.Joe realizes he is being squeezed and counter-offers with "two fifty," refusing to sell for less.Frankie threatens hat he will soon be visited and asks what kind of flowers (for his funeral) he prefers.