She retaliated with her own brief affair with a timid Iowa bank officer Sam Burns (John Lithgow).Meanwhile, middle-aged Aurora was dodging the womanizing flirtations of her next-door neighbor, a boozy, beer-bellied, over-the-hill, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), even though she had turned 50 and was now free to date.Let them bring me to your holy mountain in the place where you dwell.Across the desert and through the mountain to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon, to the temple where the cup that holds the blood of Jesus Christ resides forever.Meanwhile, Marie and Steps came to Rocky""s restaurant for a meal and grew to become friends, although when he offered Steps a job, Marie asked: "Why are you being so nice?" As he replaced her burned-out lightbulb on her front step, he told her: "I don""t owe you nothing.Anguished, Jim believes that he causes his parents o continually move from town to town to protect him.