He claimed that he had tipped off the FBI about the Vulture, but Peter had interfered and his actions had jeopardized the operation:Who do you think called the FBI, huh? Do you know that I was the only one who believed in you? Everyone else said I was crazy to recruit a 14-year-old kid.Thornhill reassures his mother (and himself) of his own identity:Mother, this is your son, Roger Thornhill.] In a medium closeup shot, a French-accented police officer reads a teletype report to all officers (over the radio) about the Tuesday, December 1, 1941 murder of two German couriers and the theft of official important documents they were carrying:To all officers.He shot a flare into the night sky before they all stampeded into view on horseback, burned and tore down tents, and galloped to the river.