Angel travels to the hospital and discovers that the records showing Favorite was tranferred on December 31, 1943, were indeed falsified by a physician named
Fowler (Michael Higgins). Discovering that he is a morphine addict, Angel withholds his fix until Fowler admits he was paid $25,000 by a wealthy friend of Favorite's and an unknown woman and that one night, years ago, they put Favorite, whose damaged face was heavily bandaged, in a car to be taken south. Angel feels Fowler is still withholding information and leaves with his morphine, hoping to sweat him some more, but when he returns he finds the doctor murdered. Fearing he will be a suspect and anxious to quit the job, he meets Cyphre to apprise him of this literal dead-end. However, Cyphre pays him $5,000 to continue the search, so Angel uses a former journalist lover to research Favorite's background. Although Johnny had a wealthy southern society fiancée named Margaret Krusemark (Charlotte Rampling), he also had a secret love named Evangeline Proudfoot in addition to being involved with a Coney Island gypysy fortune teller,
Madame Zora. Learning that voodoo practitioner Madame Zora was actually the debutante Krusemark, Angel travels to New Orleans to find her.
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