An anarchist with genuine psychic powers who has been using them as a stage magician learns the identity of the Shadow during a performance Lamont and Margot are attending.
There is trouble and death on the new bridge as men hear voices and die immediately after. Lamont gets a job on the bridge and is apparently the next to die.
When Lamont decides to look into the disappearance of a gangster associated with a political boss, the boss dies rather suddenly of allegedly pneumonia.
A philanthropist Senator is on trial for the seeming absurd charge of accepting a bribe from a deceased gangster. But the case becomes unexpectedly solid when the prosecution presents some motion picture evidence of the alleged incident.
A spy has been torturing a scientist to tell him the formula of a new explosive, but instead causes his mind to snap. So he kidnaps a fellow countryman psychiatrist Lamont just met and demands that he repair the mental damage done.