known only by the name "Alicia", who is connected to the gangster.

Mr. Brown becomes exasperated with Diamond's investigation and, with his second-in-command McClure and thugs Fante and Mingo, kidnaps and tortures the lieutenant, and pours a bottle of alcohol-based hair tonic down his throat before letting him go outside his police captain's apartment. Diamond eventually learns through one of Mr. Brown's past accomplices, Bettini, that Alicia was actually Mr. Brown's wife. Bettini suspects that