- Preparing to meet the press, Billy and Roxie form her story: "We Both Reached for the Gun."
- In the fantasy sequence, Roxie is Billy's ventriloquist dummy, saying everything he tells her to.
- They make her out to be the innocent girl taken advantage of by Fred.
- "Not a bit reprehensible. It's so defensible!"
- The press seems to buy it completely, especially the "stay away from jazz and liquor" part.
- It seems Billy has manipulated the press just as well as he manipulates Roxie.
- It's the headline of the paper the next day: They Both Reached for the Gun!
- Everyone loves Roxie, the "sweetest little murderer" in Chicago. Women get haircuts like her; men want to be her next victim. One sailor has a Roxie Hart heart tattoo, and her auction is raking in the dough.