They are within a week of meeting the deadline of their six month trial period.Realizing heir young flier""s foolhardy action and expressing his own grim fatalism about aviation, Geoff reminds his partner of their commitment o running a business - and the very nature of their life-and-death enterprise.Plot SynopsisUnder the opening company logo and titles, the film opened in wartime Los Angeles.The disorienting opening shot was of a blinding ceiling light and sounds of accusatory voices in a dark shadowy room, and then soon after, a pull-back camera movement revealed the side of the face of tough yet vulnerable, blindfolded gumshoe detective Philip Marlowe (played by 30s musical crooner Powell in a dramatic role switch).Meanwhile, the FBI""s investigation into the Hardin family murders led to suspicions that Hardin, who had invested in a string of shopping centers during a recession, was shielding his record profits from the IRS.Hasslein""s description of the complicated nature of time travel in his TV interview in the third film).