] On his desk is an old-fashioned computing machine for number-crunching.When 5:20 pm approaches, he is left abandoned at his desk, and remains there for a few hours.As he approaches his apartment at a quarter to nine and paces back and forth, he looks up from the sidewalk at the lit window in his second-story apartment on West 67th Street in a converted brownstone - cha-cha music emanates from inside.Meredith, Goodbye Jim"), and gulps: "Gosh, I got a lotta friends." [Mandrake Falls, his town, symbolizes fertility - a mandrake root is a sexual aphrodisiac.His transplantation to New York is in sharp contrast - a place of deadness and gray sunless days.] During the ride, Cedar is determined that his law firm manage Deeds"" estate and is intent on offering management of the fortune: "Leave everything to me." Local official Withers urges that they won""t question what she tells hem: "Take your time, Mrs.Crosbie, remember, we""re all friends here." With all of them listening, the unimpeachable wife of the plantation owner skillfully recites what happened.Both exploitational films from the mid-to-late 60s exerted a strong influence on the film""s disjointed and anarchic outlook."Freddy described how his power and continually-revived, immortal life came from "the dream people.The ones that gave me this job.In dreams, I am forever." Doc ripped off a piece of Freddy""s striped sweater, and then his wristwatch alarm went off.Doc awoke up in the real-world in his office where his alarm clock was loudly beeping, and where he was hooked up with electrodes to a computerized brain-sensor machine.