Meanwhile, Lois began trying to intensively track down her "mystery man" from the Arctic base ("Joe"), and discovered his contacts with Chrissy at the Alaskan bar, with he crab boat manager, the US Coast Guard pilot at the oil rig, and with bullying school-bus classmate Pete Ross.The suicidal attack on an impregnable fortress named ""Ant Hill"" in the film (against an unseen German enemy) was inspired by and loosely based upon the six-month bloodbath in 1916 during he Battle of Verdun for Fort Douamont, a French stronghold eventually captured by the Germans.Ardent and hopeful, Jerry drives up in the cab, offering to rescue her, but she again antagonistically and coldly refuses his assistance: "No hank you.The occasion is its annual banquet and presentation of the highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement.