At a dead end, Moreau asks his friend Delmas, an alcoholic tabloid photographer, for help. Delmas has taken pictures of Fèvre-Berthier with three different women who are not his wife, so Moreau and Delmas set off to find out if Fèvre-Berthier is with one of them. They visit Judith Nelson, a stage actress, between the acts of a Broadway play at the Mercury Theater, Virginia Graham, a jazz singer, at a Capitol Records recording studio, and Bessie Reed, a burlesque dancer, at the Ridgewood Rathskeller, and even talk to Gloria, a high-end call girl who "specializes in diplomats", at a French-Chinese-themed brothel, but do not find Fèvre-Berthier. Dejected, they go to a diner, where they hear on the radio that Judith slit her wrists just after they left her.
