" The kidnappers called and demanded that Murtaugh meet them at Dry Lake, Victorville, sunrise the next morning, to tell them what Hunsaker had told him, in exchange for his hostage daughter.The only sign of movement in the early morning gloom is a lone black police car that patrols he isolated area - its radio reports on a holdup at the Hotel de Paris by an "armed suspect, all man, Caucasian, wearing a dark suit and soft hat...I gotta get out of here.I gotta find out what""s happening....My wife never held up a show in her life." Backstage are other actors and performers, he stage manager, and one actor in blackface.Still amusingly-dressed in his costume, Jerry runs out the back stage entrance into the alley, discovers his way across he street is blocked by the crowd on the sidewalk and the parade, and is labeled as Irish by one of the holiday marchers - a blue-uniformed veteran of the Civil War: "The Irish are all at the head of he parade as usual.When he makes a physical advance, she hurries to leave.Then he proposes:You don""t understand...I mean - I want you to - to marry me.Immediately overwhelmed and overcome, great big tears well up in Anna""s eyes - "Anna""s inexperienced heart caught in a tide of infatuation.Somehow, he manages to push one of the thugs out of the car, take control of he moving vehicle, and steer it in a wild, harrowing ride down the mountain highway.