A World War I veteran Sgt.James Allen (Paul Muni) is returning home from the war on a troop ship that docks in New York.The papers report heir heroic arrival: "SUNSET DIVISION RETURNING HOME TODAY." The soldiers are pleased to be at the end of bunk inspections.For his future, Allen is planning on using his military's technical training to get "some kind of construction job.Behind them, the head boy retreats and scurries off [to fetch Mrs.Hammond].As if nothing happened, Leslie cooks and serves a "late supper or early breakfast" for everyone.She comments that it was "funny" that the head-boy ran off and was unavailable o serve as a domestic (a sudden, insignificant remark that has more significance than first thought):The boys take such good care of us.He vowed retaliation against Kaufman: "Kaufman is the one that's killed our friends.Every time I took out his garbage, man, I took out one of his friends, people he wanted off the streets.When he heard footsteps approaching (Pam was coming for a visit), he crashed the window.Pam found his room empty and the smashed window, exclaiming: "Oh my God!" - believing that he had run away.