Trevor, Helen's husband, bails her out of jail, but Candyman appears to Helen again and cuts her neck, causing her to bleed to the point of unconsciousness. Anne-Marie, whose dog has been decapitated and whose baby Anthony is missing, attacks Helen in the midst of defending herself, Helen is arrested by the police. Helen blacks out and wakes up in Anne-Marie's apartment, covered in blood. In a parking garage, Helen is confronted by the real Candyman, who explains that since Helen has discredited his legend, he must "shed innocent blood" to perpetuate belief in himself and continue his existence.
Helen survives the assault and is able to identify her attacker to the police, and is thanked by Detective Frank Valento, who believes him to be responsible for the killings attributed to Candyman. While Helen explores the run-down restroom, she is attacked by a gang leader who carries a hook and has assumed Candyman's moniker in order to enhance his "street cred". There, they meet Anne-Marie McCoy, one of the residents, and finds a hidden apartment behind Ruthie's bathroom mirror, and after coming back, meets a young boy named Jake, who tells Helen the disturbing story of a child who was castrated in a public restroom by Candyman. She and Bernadette enter the housing project to visit the scene of Ruthie Jean's murder. Helen decides to write a thesis on how the residents of Cabrini-Green use the Candyman legend to cope with the hardships of living there.
His corpse was burned in a pyre and his ashes were scattered across the area where Cabrini-Green now stands. He was smeared with honey stolen from an apiary, attracting hungry bees which stung him to death. After falling in love with and fathering a child with a white woman he was hired to paint in 1890, Candyman was set upon by a lynch mob hired by his lover's father they cut off his painting hand and replaced it with a hook. He grew up in polite society and became a well-known artist, sought after for his talent in producing portraits. Helen learns from Professor Philip Purcell that Candyman was the son of a slave who became prosperous after developing a system for mass-producing shoes during the Civil War.
Later that evening, Helen and her friend Bernadette Walsh, skeptical of Candyman's existence, call Candyman's name into the mirror in Helen's bathroom nothing happens. Helen's research turns up 25 other murders in the area similar to Ruthie Jean's. She encounters two cleaning ladies, Henrietta and Kitty, who tell her about Ruthie Jean, a resident in the notorious Cabrini-Green housing project who they claim was killed by Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will kill the summoner with a hook jammed on the bloody stump of his right arm. Helen Lyle, a Chicago graduate student who is researching urban legends, hears of a local story about the Candyman from a student.
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