" Mary begs for her robe back as he circles the bush with the bathrobe in his hands.George""s imaginative contemplation of possibilities is interrupted when a car roars up he street with Harry and Uncle Billy.He fled from the house and ran back to Lisa""s pool party, where he told her: "I killed Grady," while she attempted to comfort her scared friend.They planned to transport their discoveries-finds to Shanghai.Meanwhile, Foreign Office agent Benjamin Fry visited Rick and Evelyn in England and offered them "one last assignment" - to "courier" an ancient relic to post-war Shanghai in China and keep it safe; the historical artifact or object was the Eye of Shangri-La, recognized immediately by Evelyn for its mythical importance: "it points the way to the Pool of Eternal Life.The magical, episodic tale with its profound theme of tolerance (and breaking free from prescribed social categories) was told in storybook fashion.