- The scene is the Empire State Hotel. Constance is looking around the lobby in confusion.
- Watch the elevator; Hitchcock comes out of it smoking a cigar and holding a violin case. That's his cameo in the film; he always has one.
- Constance sits down on a couch; a man smoking sits close by, crowding her.
- He says he's from Pittsburgh; Constance tries to ignore him, but he's insistent.
- He also seems to be drunk.
- He's kind of like Fleurot, albeit slightly less unpleasant.
- The house detective comes up and drives him off.
- That house detective is a problem himself now, though; he's trying to figure out what Constance is up to.
- But, he's so certain he knows what she's there for that she can fool him easily.
- She just plays along and pretends she's a schoolteacher who's had a fight with her husband and has come to make up with him.
- He says he's a psychologist; pretty funny, since of course she's a real psychologist (or plays one in the movie, anyway).
- Anyway, she describes JB and gets the detective to check the records for him.
- While he's away doing that the drunk from Pittsburgh comes back. He's persistent.
- The detective comes back and drives off drunk Pittsburgh guy.
- The detective shows Constance the handwriting of a bunch of folks who registered the morning previously, and she figures out that JB is staying there under the name John Brown.
- And up to his room she goes.
- JB says she should go away, but the love theme comes up, so there you have it.
- They kiss. Aww.
- Cut to a little later on, with Constance trying to analyze him and asking him about his childhood.
- He doesn't remember if he has a wife (much to Constance's relief).
- But he does seem to be a doctor.
- He feels certain that he's the patient who visited Edwardes in the Cumberland Mountains.
- He also thinks he killed Edwardes and hid the body.
- Constance says he's in the grip of a guilt fantasy rooted in his childhood.
- She sees that his hand was burned and asks him to remember where.
- But he faints instead.
- There's a buzz at the door. They're both startled but then Constance remembers she ordered the paper.
- Constance's picture is on the front page. Whoops!
- The delivery guy recognizes her before he goes away, and she realizes they have to leave immediately.
- They come down and walk across the lobby… and out the door.
- The delivery guy is talking to the house detective and shows him Constance's picture. The house detective looks really put out at having been fooled.