After you use the timecard (from the Clown Store) and get a photo of the thief, you will chase him on the scooters from the Jazz Club. But you will lose him and go to Early Poptropica Island to see the curator there, and then recover the painting with the key to the Inspector's house.
you have to catch a thief on counterfeit island and when you catch the thief you will get a medallion
hang from the light above it
You dont you just have to keep up with him.
You cant, you have to have the torn page finished.
At night, when you sneak back into the museum, that is your plan to catch the thief. It does not work.
In Counterfeit island, you chase him.
Click PRINT.
You don't catch him; he gets away. Pick up the keycard he dropped and go back to the museum.
The art thief is back on Counterfeit Island. As part of Counterfeit island, you don't need to do anything in Early Poptropica except get the key from the curator at the Pop Art Museum, then return to Counterfeit Island to open the Inspector's house.
Night
night right after you get caught the thief is the investigator
the mimes do he's at the music place