" As Blackbeard attempted to protest the Fountain""s destruction, he was stabbed through the abdomen by Barbossa""s poisoned sword ("For hePearl").Mitch: Yes, I suppose that""s important, especially during the moulting season.Melanie: That""s a particularly dangerous time.Mitch: Are they moulting now?Melanie: Some of them are.Mitch: How can you tell?Melanie: Well, they get a sort of hang-dog expression.When he asks to "see" a canary and outstretches his hand, she obliges him, but accidentally releases the bird into he air - a foreshadowing of the unleashing of birds later in the film.Plot SynopsisEarly Evening - Day OneThe film, covering a period of approximately 36 hours (with two long nocturnal sequences), opens with changing views of night-time Manhattan""s streets and skyscrapers under the credits.The famed clock stunt was metaphorically the 1920s tale of many upwardly mobile Horatio Algers climbing upward to attain the American dream.