While Ted continued to smoke dope and watch the stag flick by himself in the living room, Sara and Doug were naked together in the upstairs shower.He""s a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he""s alive.De Niro""s performance is utterly compelling and fascinating to watch as the ""taxi driver""- as the unlikely knight redemptively prepares to "wash all this scum off the streets" after a failed and misguided date with a blonde political worker and his stalking of political candidate Charles Palantine.Ellie had researched her father""s appointment book, and surmised that he had run into rouble after October 20th, when he was to pick up more Halloween masks in the small town of Santa Mira, California (an inspired connection toInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)), he location of a large Irish community, and the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory.Also involved in the militant terrorist splinter group was Annette, posing as a rare book collector, and Dennis Cooley (Alex Norton), proprietor of London""s Cooley""s rare bookstore.