Paul finds Tom again, but the mob (with the assistance of Julie, Gail, and Gail's Mister Softee truck) pursues Paul.
Paul meets a man who he asks for help, and the man assumes that he is looking for a gay hookup.
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Narrowly escaping, Paul meets an ice cream truck driver named Gail, who eventually mistakes him for the burglar plaguing the neighborhood, and she and a mob of local residents relentlessly pursue him. In search of Kiki and Horst to inform them of Marcy's suicide, he goes to Club Berlin, where a group of punks attempt to shave his head into a mohawk. Ultimately, Paul rejects Julie's advances and leaves. Paul decides to return to Julie's apartment, where she begins to sketch his portrait while they talk. He then returns to Tom's bar only for Tom to get a call informing him of the death of Marcy, who was his girlfriend. Paul meets Julie again on the street, and she invites him up to her apartment to wait for Tom, where Paul is unnerved by her own strange behavior.
Paul attempts to return to Tom's bar, but it is locked out with a sign indicating that Tom will be back in half an hour. Paul reports Marcy's death before remembering he was supposed to return Tom's keys. However, when he attempts to do so, he discovers Marcy has committed suicide Kiki and a man named Horst have already left to go to a place called Club Berlin. When Paul returns the sculpture to Kiki and Marcy's apartment, Kiki encourages him to apologize to Marcy. After he confronts them, they flee, dropping the sculpture in the process. Afterward, Paul spots two burglars, Neil and Pepe, with Kiki's man sculpture. They exchange keys so Paul can go to Tom's place to fetch the cash register key. The bartender, Tom Schorr, offers to give Paul money for a subway token, but he is unable to open the cash register. At the bar, Paul learns that there have been a string of burglaries in the neighborhood. He goes to a bar where Julie, a waitress, immediately becomes enamored with him. Paul attempts to go home by subway, but the fare has increased at the stroke of midnight. As a result of this implication and strange behavior from Marcy, Paul abruptly slips out of the apartment.
At the apartment, Paul meets Kiki, who is working on a sculpture of a cowering and screaming man, and, throughout the visit, comes across several pieces of evidence that imply Marcy is disfigured from burns. On the way, his $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with only some change, much to the incredulity of the cab driver. Later in the night, after calling the number under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul takes a cab to the apartment. Marcy tells him that she is living with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster-of-Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels, and leaves him her number. After a boring day at work, Paul Hackett, a computer data entry worker, meets Marcy Franklin in a local cafe in New York City.
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