With a 25 Lockpick skill or the maintenance key from the storage room in the entrance area one can reach Beagle in the kitchen without having to travel past the large group of convicts in the dining hall. One or two of them will often be found near the entrance, with the others staying nearer to the large dining hall at the back.

Six convicts and their leader inhabit the main floor of the hotel. The player character must now fight and/or sneak their way to Deputy Beagle, who is tied up and being held hostage in the kitchen of the Bison Steve Hotel.

After the Courier enters the side of Primm taken over by escaped convicts, the can go to the Vikki and Vance Casino and talk to Johnson Nash, who will tell the player character that Deputy Beagle is being held hostage and needs to be rescued, beginning the quest, or one can go directly to Deputy Beagle within the Bison Steve Hotel and proceed along one of several courses outlined below.