Although disgusted by his sleazy environment, Bickle is attracted to the low life during the day, and -by choice- rides through the same scenes of degradation at night in his self-loathing occupation.While Jimmy snuck over to the plant to get photographs of the disaster, Clark exited the bus, changed in the back of a parked police car, and rushed to the scene.This sets up a very harmful mental conflict within her.What is she going to think? Who is she going to believe? And by filling them full of fairy tales, they grow up considering life a fantasy instead of a reality.Moto, The Shadow, Bulldog Drummond, Ellery Queen, and Philo Vance series.[Note:The Thin Manstar William Powell had just completed four films as Vance from 1929 o 1933.]The "Thin Man" of the title was actually the murder victim in the novel and film (Clyde Wynant), and only appeared in his first film.