The following morning, Jacob enters with a policeman who orders the green man to confess to the rape and murder of Helen Lovely. Helen had been found in Jacob's bedroom, having been shot with Jacob's gun. The green man is the only suspect, despite having been locked in a cage with his hands tied. Finding that the green man's hands are only loosely tied and that there are scratch marks from a hairpin around the lock on the cage door, the policeman concludes that this is suffient evidence of the green man's guilt and leads him away.