Two business lunches are taking place concurrently at Dino's. One, Jeff is meeting with local jeweler Marie La Shelle to discuss the theft in Amsterdam of six matching rubies, Jeff who is on retainer to the insurance company. Marie was supposed to handle the sale of the rubies, she who believes that whoever stole them will still try to smuggle them into the US to fence them. Two, French starlet Charmaine Chalet is in the US for promotion to the American market, she and her European manager, Rolfe Berne, who are meeting with studio executive, Harry Orrwitt, in addition to taking some publicity photos in front of the Lodge. Kookie has a crush on her and had wanted to meet her, this stop at Dino's which allows him at least to get that glimpse, his encounter with her more up close and personal than he could have dreamed. While the outcome of these lunches go in two different directions - Jeff who decides to follow a hunch about someone he learned just happened to be in Amsterdam recently, and Kookie who goes on a mad search for Charmaine's missing beloved French poodle, Chou-Chou - they come full circle as a connection is made between the players at both lunches and the rubies.
—Huggo