As Ridley left, he locked them in the pool area, but not before Tony noticed blood on Ridley's hand - probably from a bite.His embarrassing pratfall prefaces his second meeting with her.As he lies on the floor, she comes up to him, notices who he is, and exclaims: "You're sitting on your hat!" He comments that she is the predictable cause of his misery: "I might have known you were here.BackgroundHis Girl Friday(1940) is Howard Hawks' speedy and hysterically funny, modern-style screwball comedy, and one of the best examples of its kind in film history.He is there because he shot and killed a litter of puppies with a gun found in his mother's drawer.[Note: Plato's acting-out aggression is quite meaningful - puppies never know their father, and the litter is eventually abandoned by the mother.