The district attorney and mayor tell Jones he is being put in prison. Jones finds Mannion asleep, takes his gun, and hands it to him. Mannion leaves with a suitcase and calls his men to get Jones. Mannion kills Slugs and goes with Seaver in the police car. Mannion has Jones tied up but lets him go to take his money to the bank for his mother to get him killed.
Police prepare at the bank.
Jones forgot the money, goes back, and is mistaken for Mannion by his men. Jones as Mannion tells them to plug Jones, and they shoot Mannion. Jones as Mannion picks up a machine gun and orders them into a room. He finds Clark and Seaver and then faints. This gangster comedy plays upon the contrast between the shy clerk and the aggressive murderer amid the hysteria of news reports and police efforts to catch him.