As Chris entered the front door, a hand reached out to grab her hroat and pull her aside - it was her local boyfriend Rick (Paul Kratka), pouncing on her for a kiss." But Nat refuses to serve any more shots to the mellowed, sweet-talking drinker, and lectures him for two-timing his "high-class" girlfriend:There are a lot of bars on Third Avenue.With rational, cold, controlled rage, she turned the tables on him in the final, chilling scene (set on a staircase): "He has grown greedier with the years.Some of the officers who suspected cowardice hastily composed a ballad in Queeg""s honor:The Yellowstain Blues.