When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.

He slipped into petty crime, fraud and small time theft and, after several run ins with the law, finally received his first civilian prison time, 2 months in Wormwood Scrubs for forging a cheque.

Pressed for time and desperate to claim the last piece of his empire, especially knowing Dingleman has expressed interest in the land and has the money for it, Duddy resorts to forging a cheque from Virgil's chequebook to acquire the outstanding money.