You have three close calls: once in the Costume store, once in MacGuffin's, and finally in the empty store. But you do catch him in the vents after using the blowtorch to cut your way through the metal bars. You can't stop him in the large vent chamber (he tosses you away), but if you cut off the A/C controls, you can trap him.
(see the related question)
you use it to open the new store to catch the thief on night watch island the security guard tells you it's hidden behind the employee of the month portrait
a baseball card
He is out to steal a rare baseball card from Slugger's Keepsakes.
The rare Honus Wagner baseball card from the safe at Slugger's Keepsakes.
There are no coins used on Night watch island.
night watch island
Back Lot Island (April 2013)
The snake likes to snack on birds. But you can get a robot bird from Giuseppe's Toys. You still have to catch up to the snake to feed it to him.
Not the back room of MacGuffin's, but the Employees Only room at Good Deals next door. Use the toy robot at the camera to keep the lights on.
When you leave the atrium, an alarm comes in from Carnival Costumes, and then the camera goes off, like the one did before. Go there to investigate.
At the beginning, it is fairly simple. Just tell the robot kid not to play on the escalator and then run down the robot purse snatcher.
The password to the scooter is "frost."