The cocky, well-groomed, heavy-drinking, small-time entrepreneur McCabe argued with the scroungy proprietor and Irish owner, Patrick "Paddy" Sheehan (Rene Auberjonois), about cash flow...Time is like a freeway with an infinite number of lanes, all leading from the past into the future, however, not unto the same future.A time before.There were perfect hings, diamond absolutes.How things fall.Things on Earth.And what falls...is fallen." A flashback revisited the night that young nine year-old Bruce""s (Brandon Spink) parents, Martha (Lauren Cohan) and Thomas Wayne (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, were gunned down on a street in 1981 (the movie marquee closeby was showingExcalibur (1981)).By God, I told them the truth.They liked it or they didn""t like it.What had that to do with me? I old them the truth; I knew it for the truth then, and I know it for the truth now.She protests thatsheshouldn""t always have to romance and "do all the dirty work" on their victims.The Colonel reprimands her with his dignified ""business"" creed:Don""t be vulgar, Jean.Let us be crooked, but never common.Indeed, Pike is "dripping with dough," according o their colleague Gerald (Melville Cooper), the Colonel""s valet.