Johnny then offers Blaney and Babs jobs working at his English pub in France, where they can hide until the real murderer is found. Moments later, Johnny Porter, Blaney's old military buddy, spots the couple in the park and, believing Blaney is innocent, invites them to his apartment. The police arrive only moments later, but Blaney and Babs have already fled to a nearby park, where Blaney convinces Babs that he is not a murderer. Meanwhile downstairs, the hall porter calls the police, recognizing the newspaper's description of Blaney and his jacket. When the morning newspaper is delivered to their door, Blaney and Babs discover that Brenda has become the next necktie murder victim and Blaney is the prime suspect. After Blaney turns his pants and jacket over to the hall porter for cleaning, the couple enjoys an evening of lovemaking. Meanwhile, Blaney, upon discovering Brenda's money in his coat, decides to rent a hotel room and invite Babs, who brings his belongings from The Globe. She then describes Blaney and his tweed jacket with leather patches in great detail for the police, who have discovered money is missing from Brenda's purse. When Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Oxford questions Monica during the investigation, she is quick to accuse Blaney, stating that she saw him leave the office as she returned from lunch and that he was violent during his visit the previous day. Moments later, Monica spots Blaney leaving the building, not knowing that he had visited Brenda's office but found the door locked only moments after Rusk's departure. Although Brenda tries to escape, Rusk rapes and strangles her, leaving his tie around her neck and taking money from her purse as he leaves. After Brenda sternly refuses, citing his perverse request for extreme submission, Rusk claims that Brenda is his "type" and corners her. Robinson," visits her agency during Monica's lunch hour, to insist that Brenda find him a date. The next day, Rusk, known to Brenda as "Mr. Unaware that Brenda has secretly put twenty pounds in his coat pocket, Blaney spends the night on a free bed at the Salvation Army. An understanding woman, Brenda invites Blaney to dinner at her club hoping to calm him down, but Blaney becomes more derisive and breaks a glass. Envious of her success, Blaney loudly insults Brenda, who then asks her prim and concerned secretary, Monica Barling, to leave early to ensure some privacy for her and Blaney. After spending his last pound on brandy and then learning that Rusk's sure bet won at twenty to one, a thoroughly frustrated and drunken Blaney visits his ex-wife, Brenda, at her matrimonial agency. Although Rusk offers him money and betting advice on the afternoon's horse races, Blaney is too consumed with his plight to go to the races. After a short farewell to his girl friend, Babs Milligan, a Globe barmaid, Blaney seeks solace with his old friend Robert Rusk, a congenial man who owns a Covent Garden fruit business. The down-on-his luck ex-RAF pilot decides to quit rather than suffer the humiliation, thus losing both his job and his dingy apartment above the bar. Blocks away at the Globe bar, bartender Richard Blaney is badgered for taking a brandy by manager Felix Forsythe. In London, one day along the Thames, a crowd spots a young woman's strangled body wash ashore, another in a string of victims known as the Necktie Murders.
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