The strapping of Nikki's soles continues while she remains stubborn and uncooperative. She may not have much information but, with the way she is responding to the bastinado, she must know something about Lola's whereabouts. Her interrogator switches to a cane. This scares her, so he starts out light. He still thinks her excuses and half-truths are funny and he sees no reason to stop the show too soon.