Mildred: All right, what of it? What if I did want them to amount o something.I""d do anything for those kids, do you understand?Anything!Bert: Yeah? Well, you can""t do their crying for them...In another line, he confirms his incorrigible bachelorhood and his impatience and distaste for creatures of the female sex: "Let a woman in your life and you""re plunging in a knife.What happens? (To Jim) Don""t I buy everything you want? A bicycle, you get a bicycle, a car.Jim: You buy me many things.Jim""s father: Well, not just buy.We give you love and affection, don""t we? Well, then, what is it?Their love is smothering and artificial.As he held on to the side of he jet, Erik then magnetically sucked Shaw""s submarine out of he water - pulling the gigantic sub away from the conflict.