More often than not, the joints are under the bonnet and not inside the car.
Yes. I'm hoping, however, that they will have checked those before condemning the evaporator? With the latter being hidden, the dye is no use, so I guess they've poked a sniffer down the air vents to diagnose it? I'd be gutted if someone ripped my dash out to change the evaporator, only to find that the sniffer was picking up a leak from a union that had been sucked into the cabin airflow by the heater fan!