Sanders rescues Barrie from a card chat on shipboard. He learns from her that his old friend Jonathan Hale is being framed in the theft of $50,000. She shames him into helping Hale, even though at the moment she does not know who he is. Next morning the headlines break that Roland Drew and the inimitable Paul Guilfoyle have been found not guilty in their trial. Pierre Watkin tells them they owe their share of $90,000 that it took to clear them. The paper also announces that Hale's badge has been called for. Watkin sends men to the docks to meet Barrie to kidnap her. Sanders struggles with them, but they still get her. Drew later sends Guilfoyle (as the memorable character Clarence "Pearly" Gates) to open a safe in Watkin's house, but Watkin surprises him in the act. Guilfoyle tells Wakin that it was Drew who sent him.
Hale, working to try to clear his name, also slips into Watkin's house and finds him knocked out, and Sanders also on the scene. Together they investigate the crime. They find that Watkin had a camera rigged which snapped Guilfoyle in the act of opening the safe. Sanders goes to Drew's club, where he sees Barrie and visits with her. He also sees Guilfoyle talking to Drew. Drew thinks he murdered Watkin. Then Sanders shows Guilfoyle the picture of him opening the safe. They go to see Hale. Guilfoyle tells them that the money he was trying to steal was the fix money. The three of them agree to abduct Robert Emmett Keane to get him to tell the details of the graft. (Keane was one of the four involved in it.) They take him to a basement room to grill him, but he is killed through the window. They take his body back home, but the police burst in, and only Sanders is able to escape.
Barrie turns out to be the murderer, out for revenge for the murder of her brother.
Guilfoyle
Watkin
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