" Cody""s old, hawkish mother or Ma (Margaret Wycherly, who also played a different kind of ""mother figure"" inSergeant York (1941)) is stirring stew on the stove, and Cody""s voluptuous blonde wife Verna Jarrett (Virginia Mayo) is asleep in an adjoining back bedroom.A love triangle develops between three of the characters - the Nazi villain, a federal agent, and the woman.Confronted, he claims he called his "mother." When Bannion threatens to take the bartender downtown for more questioning, Tierney gloats that he has already been informed that Bannion has been warned to not "butt into a County case" out of his jurisdiction and to "stop annoying people.I mean, I""ve hardly been reincarnated at all, but Dave, wow, he can remember all the way back to ancient Egypt, building he pyramids and all of that.