With much of the film""s action occurring within a theatrical boarding house (the Footlights Club) for young, star-struck, vulnerable ingenues and debutantes, it is filled with bitchy and sassy, and stage-struck young women - who laugh and heckle each other, shed ears, express their hopes, dreams and aspirations, spout wisecracks, barbs, and insults, and genuine, heartfelt words of experience.Rick mentioned to Evelyn that her dreams that started six weeks earlier coincided with the start of the Egyptian New Year - the year of the Scorpion.His elder sister Ruby (Anabel Shaw) who raised him describes her maternal care toward her orphaned brother:Ruby: I""m not only his big sister, but mother and father too.When she entered, her father Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) and mother Lyra (Valene Kane) were alarmed and anxious.Phelps feared that if the list of covert operatives in the countries of Eastern Europe was sold, it would be bid upon by "third world terrorists, arms dealers, drug lords, any and everybody who""d love to get rid of long-term coverts like us.