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In a public space, Tolen appears to sexually assaults Nancy, who at first is silent, then faints. When she wakes up, she begins claiming she was raped, but this was not the case. Tolen, Colin and Tom find themselves unable to restrain her from loudly repeating the allegations all over the neighborhood, or puncturing the tires of Tolen's motorcycle; after which she runs back to the residence, where she throws Tolen's records out of the window and strips naked inside his bedroom. The men become convinced her rape allegations reflect her own [[rape fantasy]] and urge Tolen to "go on to it since HE has The Knack. When Nancy emerges from the room wearing only her overcoat, she persists in her rape fantasy but shifts her focus from Tolen to Colin. With her new found power to frighten the men instead of herself being scared, she backs Colin and the other men back down the stairs and corners Colin in the kitchen where she says that "no girl would ever suspect LUST beneath the handsome exterior of the tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed school-teacher lurks the heart of a beast lusting for the blood of young virgins." Colin looks shocked to know a girl thinks HE is handsome and she goes further to proclaim how lovely his hands are. He blushes when he asks her "Do I really?" Tom and Tolen then come down to the kitchen and see how Colin and Nancy are gazing at each other and Tom says that Colin has raped her. Shocked at the very idea, Tolen protests, and then Nancy states that "rugged and handsome with lovely hands" Colin did indeed rape her "marvelous-super" and the more she extolls Colin's own "Knack," the taller he stands proud to have the affection of just this one young woman, even with a ridiculous claim that she manages to make quite sweetly with her new affections for Colin. Tolen gets confused by all this and his expressions begin to indicate that perhaps his own mojo maintaining "the Knack" is slipping after hearing Nancy speak of Colin in this manner.

Tolen slips off to his engagement where he and Rory have booked the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in order to have a reunion with all the girlfriends of both men. When he arrives, Tolen discovers that all HIS girls have turned their affections to Rory. (The audience never sees Rory.) The ladies refuse to allow him inside and trample him underfoot. He arrives back home and asks Tom where Colin and Nancy are, both upstairs in his room sitting on his "vast" new bed. The two are still whispering new sweet-nothings to each other with Colin smoking a cigarette and his tie missing, collar now standing up straitstraight, as if he and Nancy really had been physically intimate already but there is no indication of that. Colin says "It would be lovely to see you laugh" with a hand on her cheek.

The film ends with Tolen having totally lost The Knack, and with Nancy and Colin having an evening stroll hand in hand down, perfectly comfortable with each other, with Colin having acquired his own different kind of Knack.