allen then strides off purposively to tony's dance hall, where he finds shirley in tony's arms". tony: "what is this?, are you trying to play the spurned husband gag on me?". john thrusts $162 into the hands of tony, who doesn't want it, then turns to shirley: "you. you made a rat out of me. bud was right, you were born rotten and now you're trying to make other girls as rotten as you are". "born crooked" was how bud had described shirley, when arguing with allen, just before falling to his death. shirley turns to tony in panic: "tony he's going to kill me!". johns sweaty deranged face is shown in closeup: "yeah, i'm going to kill you. if i don't you're going to go on like this, from tony to another man, always making yourself cheaper and dirtier". he fires several bullets into shirley day as tony runs out of the room howling.