A police detective (Nestor Paiva) brings Crain to the police station, where he is questioned by Captain Burke (Warren William) because his watch had been found at the professor's apartment among other pawned items. As Crain leaves the office, the house painter is brought in but states that he's never seen Crain before. Crain burns his stained jacket, but then his luck takes some sudden turns. He receives a check for a thousand dollars from a journal for an article that he wrote, and he meets the young woman again, now working at the diner where they met. Learning that her name is Eileen and with cash in his pocket, Crain begins to go out with her.