Babs returns to the pub to fetch her and Blaney's belongings, intending to meet him the next morning to go to Paris. There, Babs runs into Rusk, who claims he is leaving town and offers her his flat for the night; after leading her there, he rapes and murders her (off-screen). Rusk hides Babs's body in a sack and stows it in the back of a lorry hauling potatoes. Back in his room, he discovers his distinctive jeweled tie pin (with the initial R) is missing, and realizes that Babs must have torn it off. Knowing the tie pin will incriminate him, Rusk goes to retrieve it, but the lorry starts off on its northern journey while he is still inside. Rigor mortis has set in, forcing Rusk to break Babs's fingers to get the pin. Disheveled and dirty, he gets out when the lorry stops at a roadside cafe. Babs's body is discovered when her leg is spotted sticking out of the back of the truck as it passes by a police car.