The Thief vowed to steal the many valuables and jewels brought as gifts by the suitors - by scaling the tall palace wall with his magic rope: "Tonight - with the magic rope." Early on, they share tribulation together - having learned the lesson that when money is involved, no one can be trusted:Only foreigners and half-baked Americans fall for McCormick""s tricks.The most celebrated segments in the film are a marathon, prolonged erotic kissing scene (that circumvented the ""three-second"" censor""s restrictions), a swooping camera crane shot down to an extreme closeup of the wine-cellar key held in Bergman""s hand (posters for the film always included a key motif), the wine-cellar sequence, and the suspenseful final scene with masterful inter-cutting.Dr.Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) activated an EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram) (Robert Picardo) to delay the Borg""s entry into Sickbay as she escaped with Lily.At the same time in the ruined Rohan city of Osgiliath (the former capital of Gondor), Frodo narrowly avoided giving up the ring to a Nazgul Ringwraith riding on a winged creature because of Sam""s intervention, and Faramir was finally convinced to release Frodo to continue his journey to Mordor with Sam (now Samwise the Brave) and a scheming, dark-natured Gollum.