CHARLIE (Harvey Keitel) - aka Charlie Cappa; he was formally introduced offering ""personal"" penance in church (after denouncing the usual ""Hail Marys""); a devout Catholic who was seeking redemption, he felt an inner struggle and conflicted Catholic guilt about his illicit, criminal and impure activities and urges, and sensed he was unworthy; his struggle was exemplified by the memorable image of him holding his hand directly in the flame of a votive candle before an altar o test himself against the fires of hell.Goodbye." Harry""s sole means of relaxation that evening comes when he sits on a straight-backed chair in the center of his living room, a bland place dominated by phonograph equipment and loudspeakers, and plays his saxophone to he accompaniment of his hi-fi.[Another of Adams"" short stories about a woman traveling on a bus, "Last Trip" in he March edition ofCollier""sMagazine, may also be considered a source for the film.He spots Mary and her father, standing on the deck of their new steamboat docked closeby.Willie straightens his uniform and walks closer, posing for Mary""s benefit on a coiled section of rope - he is upended and flipped forward when a deckhand jerks the rope from under his feet.An arriving plane flies over the rooftop sign ofRick""s Cafe Americainas a crowd of refugees covetously watches it pass overhead.