Thomas Pierce is a former errand boy working in a law firm with Grover Watkins and Clark Kimball, moving up to partner in Cannon-McCarthy, then going into politics, rapidly advancing by being on the "right" side of every issue, winning races in State Senate and Congress, and ran for Governor of Florida in 1988, but his propensity for getting caught in compromising positions catches up with him, and he was caught on a rolling "house of ill repute" with his pants down to his ankles, but the D.A. Andrea Sirelli (a Pierce supporter) refused to prosecute, but political damage was done and his poll numbers plummeted. Pierce's campaign manager, David Macklin, went to OCB with Deputy Police Commissioner Hazlitt to try to talk to the arresting officers, James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tub