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Jimmy follows Wanda and watches the unusal sexual encounter unfold from a distance as Olga whips Wanda into submission. Wanda screams and rolls around on the floor trying unsuccessfully to escape the bite of Olga’s bullwhip while Ahmed and Percival watch. Olga than kneels down on the floor and kisses Wanda while Percival violates her by touching her body all over from her waist down. Ahmed watches (and when we see close-ups of his face, we also see flashbacks of Ahmed in a turbin, as if he may have been reincarnated from a past life). Ahmed takes a knife and cuts Wanda’s body, drawing blood. He sucks on her wounds while Olga continues to kiss her and Percival continues to rub his hands all over her legs and exposed thighs. Unbeknownst to them, Jimmy watches this unfold but assumes it is consensual and therefore doesn’t intervene.

But once the film moves away from his flashback and he is back looking at Wanda’s dead body on the beach, along with noticing the knife marks still fresh in her flesh, Jimmy realizes she was murdered that night and he laments not having prevented it.

The movie switches to a later time, in Rio de Janeiro, where Jimmy is performing in a club along with his lover Rita (Barbara McNair), a black female jazz singer. While he looks around the room to seek his muse for the evening (a la Chet Baker) Jimmy sees a woman who looks just like Wanda (wearing a fur coat). Jimmy is in love with Rita but he is infatuated with Wanda.