As she knelt down to look for a lost earring, the body of Russell dropped in front of her.She ran and fearfully hid in a toolshed, where Jason grabbed her from either side with both fists shoved through a wooden wall behind her, and sliced her neck with a curved scythe(# 8 death)(off-screen).Having designs on her himself, he has her sit down, and asks for her to decide which way she will go.Popeye""s and Russo""s Reluctant Boss Walter Simonson:Because Popeye""s hunches have "backfired" before, Popeye and Russo are flatly denied permission by their boss Lieutenant Walter Simonson (Eddie Egan, the character who inspired Popeye Doyle) in the Narcotics Bureau to work on their current hunches about Boca and Weinstock:Lt.He was bluntly told: "You don""t know what you""re doin"", McCabe.You got no experience at this," but was reluctantly offered one toothless older Indian woman: "You can have her, but you""ll have to get her some teeth.Its first airing on NBC-TV was in 1972, and its first video (laserdisc) release was in 1985.It received only one Oscar out of its 10 Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture, two Best Actor nominations (for Dean and Hudson - it was Hudson""s sole Oscar nomination in his entire career), Best Supporting Actress (McCambridge), Best Adapted Screenplay (Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Music Score (Dimitri Tiomkin)) - Stevens won the Best Director Oscar (his second Oscar following another Best Director win forA Place in the Sun (1951)).