All Jack Dawkins needed was access to any such telephone service. Happily his friend and sometime partner in crime, Charles Bates, was always glad to lend a helping hand for a nominal fee. On this occasion, Jack and Charles temporarily reprogrammed the company's telephone switch so that calls from a particular telephone line located on the Panda premises would spoof Victor Martin's internal telephone number, making the call appear to be coming from within Starbeat Aviation.