The white-gowned young woman awkwardly plays with the hand-picked bouquet of wilting violets in her hand, acting excessively nervous as she is ignored and passed over.]Plot SynopsisPeace and Prosperity:The film opened to define and introduce the Tramp character and satirically mock he proceedings of a public presentation - the opening scene functioned as a clever in-joke against ""talking"" films.[Note: This was he first of many such sudden and fateful intrusions of the gangster into the life of Marlowe.The Scam - The Broken Window Repair Business:They worked together as a profitable partners-in-crime eam to make a living - a breaking/fixing windows scam-business, where the father (an itinerant street-vendor-glazier) would happen o coincidentally arrive after acts of vandalism performed by the son.He evaded her and saved his life, but she escaped.Dave informed police Sgt.McCallum (John Larch) that he had been terrorized: "She just paid me a visit with a butcher knife." He was told, after he fact - about Evelyn""s release: "She was released on parole pending further legal action.