When Lola Pearl arrived, the bespectacled lawyer was surprised that Ailee was nowhere to be found. After she courageously challenged the crooked man's scam, Lola's black jacket was coiled with white rope and she was seated on a barstool, a knotted black cloth tightened between her lips. Unable to free herself, Lola slipped off her pumps and tried to hop away on her stockinged feet but was quickly caught and hitched to the stool, where she twisted indignantly.