He will need be convinced to share what he knows using a Confirmed Bachelor speech check or completing Come Fly With Me fulfills this. He is in Dinky the T-Rex during the day and his room at night. Continue through the town and head north to Novac. Alternatively, pickpocket or kill Beagle to get Deputy Beagle's journal, which provides similar information. Afterwards, question him about the man in the checkered suit.
Help Deputy Beagle, who has been taken hostage by the escaped convicts, escape the Bison Steve Hotel.
After getting stitched up and enlightened on some useful wasteland skills, the Courier leaves Goodsprings to track the man that shot them in the head, visiting many settlements in their search for clues.
