" The kidnappers called and demanded that Murtaugh meet them at Dry Lake, Victorville, sunrise the next morning, to tell them what Hunsaker had told him, in exchange for his hostage daughter.I""m tryin"" to teach ""em something.It was a defensive exercise." The absent teacher Scott was still mourning and healing from the loss of girlfriend Jean Grey at Alkali Lake (at the end of the previous film).He demonstrates his secret method of deducing how many fingers Jeffrey holds up in the air.Jeffrey also yells out to one of the other employees, asking to borrow a bug-spraying rig.Ed tells him: "If you want to spray for bugs Jeffrey, it causes us no pain."That afternoon in the bright daylight, Jeffrey pulls up in his red convertible outside Central High School as schoolkids leave the area, recognizing Sandy with a group of her girlfriends.As before, Williams"" work on this film was directed by Elia Kazan, a favorite director of several of his plays on Broadway as well.The First Mate of he ship was none other than Angelica, who had conned Blackbeard into thinking she was his long-lost daughter.