McPherson: I know, but it keeps me calm.The next scene opens in a small restaurant, where a string quartet plays the ""Laura"" theme song.Waldo and McPherson share dinner together, seated at the very same table where Lydecker often came with Laura:This is our table, Laura""s and mine.A restored, four-hour version was recently reconstructed by film archivist Rick Schmidlin - he pieced together existing footage and 650 stills with the use of the continuity script to create a fuller sense of Stroheim""s original film (with its numerous subplots and complexities).She was sensible and supportive of his qualities ("You""ve got a lot going for you.You""re bright, and you""re funny and I think you""re even romantic, if you""d only believe it.I don""t see why you put on a false mask every time you meet a girl"), and he always felt free and comfortable o speak to her openly.Dixon seemed to punish Balboa for "the temerity of landing" a few punches and "landing potent combinations to the head of the champion.As dawn approached, Ethan was waiting by himself at the train yard, when a white stretch limousine arrived.