They always hold their meetings in the mansion because, as Cobb astutely points out: "Why do mice go where there's cheese?" The board's spokesman is Douglas (Edwin Maxwell) and to Deeds' surprise, he has been elected to preside as the director, or chairman of the opera house.Devlin: Just wanted to be friends.Alicia: Friends, yeah.You could frame me, hmm?Devlin: No, I've got a job for ya.Alicia: (unsteadily) Oh well, don't tell me.There's only, oh, here's only one job that you coppers would want me for.Well you can forget it Mr....Devlin: Devlin.Alicia: What?Devlin: Devlin.Alicia: I'm no stool-pigeon, Mr.Devlin.Devlin: My department authorized me to engage you to do some work for us.There's a job in Brazil.Alicia: Oh, go away.The whole thing bores me.Devlin: Some of the German gentry who are paying your father are working in Rio.Ever hear of the I.G.Farben Industries?Alicia: I tell you, I'm not interested.Devlin: Farben has men in South America, planted there before he war.They're cooperating with the Brazilian government to smoke them out.My chief thinks that the daughter of a, uh...Alicia: A traitor?Devlin: Well, he thinks you might be valuable in the work.They might sell their trust to you.And you could make up a little for your daddy's peculiarities.Alicia: Why should I?Devlin: Patriotism.Alicia: That word gives me a pain.No thank you.I don't go for patriotism, nor, or patriots.Devlin: I could dispute that with you.Alicia: Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with he other.That's your patriotism.Well, you can have it.After her initial reluctance, Devlin must contradict her claims to persuade and convince the "hard-boiled" lady o atone for her father's sins and accept his offer.He met black Reggie "The Reckless" (Shavar Ross), the grandson of Pinehurst's cook George (Vernon Washington) - who scared him with a rubber spider dangling on a string.Assistance would be limited to "supply and advice only" - he was unaware of scheming by Ritter and Cutter to take down the cartels with a secret military incursion into Colombia.