Stanley Ecker made a recording at the Riverside Hotel, in Room 1216, between Joe Manson and a guy in the state license department, Carl Haley. Joe already had Haley exactly where he wanted him, but the idea is that now he has a 'Protection Copy' all he has to do is play the copy any time Haley tries to back down on his end of the deal, and all will be sweet again. Or it would have been - if Stanley Ecker hadn't been involved...