In the wild it is said that if you look a raptor straight in the eye, there are a few more things you're not seeing. Detective Trousers and Haps may or may not have heard this. Even if they had, heeding advice and hearing it are two very different things.
Detective Trousers and Haps come to realize that with the daylight comes its herald. For the ancient Greeks it was Phoebus Apollo, for the R.D.P.D. it's Lieuntenant Wallow.