After Pop shoots Blackie, he passes the gun to Nan, which implicates her in the murder. She naïvely takes the rap since she believes the mob will arrange for her acquittal, but she is sent to prison. Pop Cooley tries to convince The Kid to join the gang to free Nan, which he does out of love for her. However, her attitude had changed since she was railroaded to prison. When The Kid visits Nan in prison in a fur coat, she becomes terrified of his involvement with Pop's gang after she witnesses a fellow inmate's mobster boyfriend being gunned down outside the prison gate. When Nan is released, having served her term, she wants nothing more to do with the mob. She tries to persuade The Kid to quit the gang, but he refuses.
