Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the " Night is falling ", and Butterfly answers that " with it comes darkness and peace.

) Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, " you have not yet told me that you love me.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.

" Sharpless draws a letter from his pocket and tells her, " Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton has written to me.

" Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton is perfectly well, and she says, " I am the happiest woman in Japan.

She tells him that, after Pinkerton left, Goro came to her many times " with presents to palm off this or that husband on me.

Butterfly tells Suzuki that she wants Pinkerton to see her dressed as she was on the first day " and a red poppy in my hair.

Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that Pinkerton had arrived.

Sharpless tells Pinkerton, " Did I not tell you so?

While Pinkerton looks at the flowers, the picture of himself and the room that has remained unchanged for three years, Sharpless tells Suzuki that they can do nothing for Butterfly but that they must help her child.

Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton ’ s new wife, Kate, wants to care for the child.

At the meeting Yamadori tells Cho-Cho-San that Pinkerton only thought of the marriage as temporary as was common in America, and suggests that he would eventually divorce her and the baby could well end up in an orphanage.

To spare her feelings, Sharpless tells her that he had indeed written Pinkerton who was on his way to see her but had many duties to perform, and then his ship was suddenly ordered to China.

When Goro leaves, Sharpless asks Pinkerton if he is really in love.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

One of her cousins says that Goro first offered Pinkerton to her, but she refused.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

Goro whispers that Pinkerton ’ s ship is expected to arrive soon, and Sharpless explains that Pinkerton is too embarrassed to meet Butterfly and has asked Sharpless to handle it.

Then Goro, a marriage broker, arrives and proposes that she divorce Pinkerton, telling her that even if he does come back, he will leave her and take the child with him.

In The Pinkerton Story, authors James D. Horan and Howard Swiggett write sympathetically about the detective agency and its mission to bring the Mollies to justice.

Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Pinkerton takes Butterfly ’ s hand and leads her into the house.

From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets.

Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.

The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers.

Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.

He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

She recognizes Pinkerton and points him out to her friends, and all bow down before him.

" Without looking to see who is speaking, Butterfly corrects him, " Madam Pinkerton, please.

He was originally hired by the railroad express companies to track down James, but after Pinkerton failed to capture him, the railroad withdrew their financial support and Pinkerton continued to track James at his own expense.

* In order to divert Pinkerton J. Snoopington the bank examiner ( Franklin Pangborn ) from discovering Og's embezzlement of bank funds, Egbert takes him to the bar and surreptiously asks Joe if " Michael Finn " has been in the bar yet today, a signal that Joe is to drug the bank examiner's drink.

After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced him to flee with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the Sundance Kid, and Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place, first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where he and Longabaugh were allegedly killed in a shootout in November 1908.

She asks him to write Pinkerton and tell him that she is marrying Yamadori and will take their son with her if he does not return.

Pinkerton returned with reams of material that Atwater told him to reduce to a 3 × 5 index card, telling him, " I'm giving you one thing.

The graphic novel paints him as a sulky but sympathetic policeman, different from his peers only in his moralism and being overweight, and takes pains to include little-known details of his life such as his involvement with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

The small Inch worked for The Finkerton Detective Agency ( a wordplay lampoon of The Pinkerton Detective Agency ), where the boss ( Mr. Finkerton ) constantly dreamed of the day that he would fire him.

When the Pinkerton Detective Agency began to track him, like many others using similar methods, he fled to New York City and came to Portsmouth.

When Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, visited the place in 1873, Worth recognized him.

A pair of Pinkerton agents recognize him as Don Alejandro de la Vega.

His success led him to found the " Rocky Mountain Detective Association ", a freelance, volunteer-only group of Colorado troubleshooters, similar in character to the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Despite numerous scrapes, he returned to Washington, D. C., with information that Scott evidently thought valuable enough to raise him to the rank of captain and he swiftly took over charge of the Union Intelligence Service from the Scottish detective Allan Pinkerton.