Blaney meets up with Barbara "Babs" Milligan (Anna Massey), his girlfriend and former pub co-worker. They spend the afternoon making love in a hotel that Blaney can now afford with Brenda's gift. They soon learn about Brenda's murder and that Blaney is the suspect when the afternoon paper is slipped under the door. They manage to leave the hotel by the back stairs in time to avoid the summoned police. Blaney and Babs sit in the park across the street from the hotel and try to decide what to do. There they meet Johnny Porter (Clive Swift), a friend of Blaney. He invites them up to his apartment nearby and offers to let them hide there. Johnny's wife Hetty (Billie Whitelaw) is angry at her husband for hiding Blaney, being convinced of his guilt, but Johnny offers the couple jobs in Paris.