Even after Easton departed, Eva continued chatting with his male assistant Mr.Seymour (Fredric Santly) in the outer office, offering to take any mostly-congenial role for $20 dollars a week; she then expressed her life's philosophy as an artist who must be "free to love, free to dream, free o sin, if you call it sin.]In her bedroom, Alice fed the pet fish in her aquarium ank, and then spoke to her brother Rick, who mentioned that her vanity mirror wasn't serving much of a purpose since it was covered with a collage of photographs of friends from happier times." Suddenly, he was put in the middle of a volatile confrontation with her belligerent, abusive drunk husband (or pimp/boyfriend) (John Daheim), who pushed her to the floor and called her "a two-bit little tramp.However, Elder Spock left the choice up to him alone: "Put aside logic.Do what feels right." He offered "good luck" to his younger counterpart with the split-fingers Vulcan salute.In a ceremonial assembly, Kirk was given a commendation of valor and promoted to Captain of theEnterprise, and Pike (relieved of his captaining duties), in a wheelchair, was made Admiral.