Lady Lou first appeared riding in her carriage with a parasol, encouraging nasty looks from a group of women."Revealing warmth under his sleazy facade, Ratso invites Joe to share the filthy condemned, East Village tenement building where he lives: "The X on the windows means the landlord can""t collect rent, which is a convenience, on account of it""s condemned.Politely, he picks up her string-tied parcels, his second-in-command sidekick Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) offers to carry them, and then Pike takes her arm o assist her across the street.However, with imaginative bravado in a fantasy scene, he tells his wife that he has aroused attractive women and brags:Seven years we""ve been married and not once have I done anything like that.