as clifford pulls his car up to the curb, then consults his legal pad --
duncan is standing on the sidewalk huddled close to a wall. he is looking up at tracy's apartment building across the street.
duncan turns up an alley across the street from tracy's apartment building and disappears.
tracy's screams carry out into the night as clifford races across the street and into the apartment building.
clifford is coming up the sidewalk. as clifford crosses the entrance to an alleyway, the boy comes running out and almost collides with him. clifford grabs the boy and looks down at him. then he passes the wailing child off on a nearby pedestrian and runs up into the alley.