- At Spade's apartment, Iva, still pretending to mourn her dead husband, sees Spade get out of a cab with Brigid.
- Spade looks out the window and sees the kid who has been trailing him.
- The buzzer buzzes, and Spade lets Cairo in. Cairo saw the boy, too.
- Brigid says she'll have the Falcon in a week. It's currently where Floyd hid it.
- She's afraid to touch it…because of what happened to Floyd.
- What happened to Floyd anyway? Brigid says it was "the fat man," three words that seem to frighten Cairo.
- Brigid and Cairo argue and Cairo pulls his gun on her.
- Spade disarms him: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it!"
- Suddenly, the buzzer buzzes again.
- It's the po-po.
- Spade tries to keep them in the hall and talk to them, so they don't see his visitors.
- The cops say there's talk about Spade and Archer's wife. Spade denies it.
- They're about to leave when Cairo screams for help.
- The cops push their way in, and Brigid and Cairo are fighting again. Cairo's face is bleeding, and he says Brigid pistol-whipped him.
- Spade says O'Shaughnessy is working for him, and that Cairo is working for Thursby.
- The cops are about to take them all downtown, when Spade says it was all a trick.
- Brigid and Cairo were just pretending to struggle so that the cops would leave them alone. That doesn't make any sense, but okay.
- Cairo and the cops leave Spade alone with Brigid.
- Spade asks Brigid what the Falcon is, why is everyone going crazy over it?
- "It's a black figure as you know, smooth and shiny, a bird, a hawk, about that high," she says, holding her hands about a foot apart.
- She doesn't know why it's so important, although someone paid Brigid 500 pounds to get it from its previous owner.
- But Joel Cairo made off with it, so Brigid and Thursby took it from Cairo, and then Thursby hid it.
- Spade thinks she's lying when she says it's just a plain black statue.
- Brigid admits there is some truth in her story, but "not very much."
- Outside, the weird boy in a trench coat is still watching Spade's apartment window.