Dorothy Bain is a New York native who fled to Miami to escape her abusive husband, Danny Bain. She has a son, six-month-old Stevie, and she gets a job at the Shelbourne Hotel working for Nello, the maitre'd. One night Dorothy couldn't get a babysitter, but Ample Annie, also working at the club, volunteers for babysitting so Dorothy can work, but after she drops wine glasses after a patron makes a pass at her, she is fired. Despondent, she is sitting in the lobby with her son when Morty Price stops and takes her up to his room, on the premise of talking to the hotel's owners, Johnny Cannata and Frank Doss to help her get her job back, but takes the opportunity to attempt to rape her, after warning him to back off, Dorothy stabs Price to death with a steak knife when he tries again, then tak