1. Bond into New York
2. Meets Halloran and Captain Dexter of the FBI
3. Sees "Mr. Big" for the first time in a black Chevrolet sedan in traffic across 55th Street, checking into the St. Regis.
4. Bond checks into Suite 2100, and runs into Felix Leiter, his comrade from the "Royale" case.

1. Flash-back to Bond's briefing with 'M'

• M checks status of skin-graft on Bond's hand.
• M shows Bond a series of gold coins minted before 1650. Special Branch and the FBI have been tracing thousands of such gold coins in the U.S, through a nation-wide web of African-American service workers--a "black market," if you will.
• M surmises the coins are part of the pirate Bloody Morgan's treasure, which shouldn't be in America, but is probably located near Jamaica. Station C is keeping tabs on a diesel-powered boat, the Secatur, making runs between a small island on the north coast of Jamaica and the Florida keys. The Secatur and the island, are owned by "Mr. Big," a negro gangster.
• Money recieved from the coin pipeline was traced back to a FBI double agent working for the Communist Party, indicating that this gold coin operation is financing the Russians.
• M's Dossier on "Big:" "probably the most powerful negro criminal in the world." The head of the Black Widow Voodoo cult, and believed by the members "to be Baron Samedi himself." He is also a Soviet agent and a known member of SMERSH. Born in Haiti. "Good dose of French blood. Trained in Moscow."

1. Dexter's Dossier on "Big"
   
   • Buonaparte Ignace Gallia (aka "Mr. Big" or "Big Man") Born Haiti. Half Negro, half French. 45 y.o. Known vices: women, but not smoke or alcohol. Has chronic heart disease given his skin a greyish hue.
   • Initiated into Voodoo as a child, ran liquor for Legs Diamond during Prohibition, moved to Harlem and set up a nightclub and prostitution ring. Because of his fluent French, worked with the OSS during WWII, decorated by the Americans and French, then disappeared for five years (probably Moscow) Re-appeared in Harlem in 1950, where he was under surveillance by the FBI. Bought up night-clubs and brothels. Was suspected of killing a turning Soviet Agent, shoving him under a subway.
2. Bond is tailored for "American" clothing, and reads up on voodoo.
3. A bomb goes off in his apartment. A calling card is found amid the debris: "The beats of your heart are numbered

1. The Secatur and the bait trade
2. "The Whisper"
3. Bond and Felix head to Harlem

1. The search for Mr. Big, from club to club and bar to bar

1. Listening to conversations
2. A passionate dance
3. Trap door table
4. Captured