As the killer approached, she laid in a coffin (the one that Michael had earlier dug up in the cemetery) ready to accept death.Clipton pleads to him that Nicholson""s health is deteriorating, and hat he is only following the rules of the Geneva Treaty Accord." Connie held the door open for him.As they bedded down in adjacent rooms, hey had their own version of the "Walls of Jericho" bedroom scene (fromIt Happened One Night (1934)) between their apartment windows." In the middle of the night, when he turned 18, Clark was awakened and went to the farm""s barn, where he uncovered a burlap-covered mound of hay, under which was the throbbing, glowing green crystal in a round pit."At the same moment, a doddering, tardy Mr.Charles Chipping (nicknamed "Mr.Chips") (Robert Donat), the retired master who still lives on the school grounds, ignores his doctor""s orders and is glimpsed shambling along in full academic garb (with mortar board and walking stick) toward the assembly.