The lieutenant has "fortified" himself with drink to bolster his courage.Flares are to be sent up at five-minute intervals to guide them.Crawling in the dark through the scarred land full of shell holes, twisted barbed wire, watery pits and rubble, he Lieutenant sends the private out ahead as an advance scout, although Paris thinks it is unwise to split a night patrol.What""s happened? You look ill too.Armand: No, it""s seeing you like this, suffering.Marguerite: It""s nothing.It lasts only a minute.Armand: You""re killing yourself.Marguerite: If I am, you""re the only one who objects.Now, why don""t you go back and dance with one of those pretty girls.(She laughs) Come, I""ll go with you.(He embraces and kisses her hand.) What a child you are.Armand: Your hand""s so hot.Marguerite: Is that why you put tears on it and cool it?Armand: I know I don""t mean anything to you.I don""t count.But someone ought to look after you.And I could if you""d let me.Marguerite: Too much wine has made you sentimental.Armand: It wasn""t wine that made me come here every day for months o find out how you were.Marguerite: No, it couldn""t have been wine.So you""d really like o take care of me?Armand: Yes.Marguerite: All day, every day?Armand: All day, every day.Why not? (She laughs)Marguerite: Why should you care for a woman like me? I""m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.At Virtucon""s Worldwide Headquarters, Powers spied upon Random Task leaving with Evil""s cat, quipping: "I never forget a pussy - cat"; he promised the "beautiful" Vanessa a night on the town - Burt Bacharach serenaded them in person atop an open-topped, double-decker bus as they shared dinner and dancing.Paddy Chayefsky""s black, prophetic, satirical commentary/criticism of corporate evil (in the tabloid-tainted television industry) is an insightful indictment of the rabid desire for ratings by the media - eerily prescient even for the present age.Thenon-musicalversion of the play, from Shaw""s own screenplay, was first filmed in Britain asPygmalion (1938)by co-directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard (who also co-starred with Dame Wendy Hiller).