Bucky sees a painting of a clown with garish makeup that resembles a Glasgow smile, similar to Short's facial mutilations. His obsession piqued again, he follows Madeleine around at night. She has made herself up like Short, and begins to pick up strange servicemen for one-night stands. She and Bucky rekindle their affair, causing Kay to leave. Meanwhile, as the city tears down the last four letters of the "Hollywoodland" sign, a hut is discovered with walls covered in dried blood. They call in Bucky, who realizes that the hut, owned by Emmett Sprague, is where Georgie lived and had murdered Short.