Four years later, my final conclusion is Mandi drove to Mulrenin's house and met him at the sidewalk, to get cash for her dancer dollars. Regardless of whether she liked Mulrenin and had been there previous nights, and regardless of whether Scott knew where she was. She had no choice. She had zero money. That made every other factor irrelevant, Mandi had to take Mulrenin up on his offer. When I first saw the handwritten “Doll House Dollars” list, it was years before I knew all the business was in dancer dollars that night, and before I knew the dancers never got paid. I may have thought the list was credit card sales for each girl, or how much they made, I don’t remember. I would not have guessed it was all dancer dollars. When I mentioned the list to Mandi's mom, her mom asked me what seemed like an angry rhetorical question: “Why wasn’t Mandi's name on that list?” I assumed it was because Mandi didn't make any money, because she is too nice. I thought Mandi's mom was angry based on what Mandi said on the phone, and what Mini-Jim said, that Mulrenin wouldn’t leave Mandi alone that night. He gave her no chance to work and make money. I realize today, Mandi's mom may have known it was a list of how much each girl was owed in dancer dollars. And Mandi's mom knew Mandi was owed for some dancer dollars. And she knew Mandi's name wasn’t on that list, because Mulrenin made Mandi come to his house to cash them out. And Mandi's mom was angry Mulrenin made Mandi come over. After all these years, everything resolves and clarifies. I realize Mandi's lawyer Bark would not have asked Barbara Mellinger about dancer dollars in her deposition, if it wasn’t somehow a central feature in what happened that night, an explanation of what happened. Bark did not even understand what he was talking about. So he must have been trying to understand this supposed reason Mandi was there. You don’t ask about things you don’t what they are, unless they matter. It is funny because the first action I remember by the new management after the Veigles bought Cabaret Internationale, the first thing that made the girls angry before I ever noticed Mulrenin, was them complaining how the new manager made them come back the next day to get their money. That and I guess firing the dj's. But the first anecdote I got about the new manager Mulrenin himself, before I remember laying eyes on him, was the girls being angry that they had to come back the next day to get their money. II-46