Ryan learned that the DEA was still trying to determine the identity of Escobedo's Intelligence Officer.Doris' black housemaid Cleo (Theresa Harris) had given permission for Susan to view the parade from his "50 yard-line" vantage point.In the film's infamous shower electrocution scene, hostage Riggs was tortured (strung up half-naked, doused in water, and prodded with an electric sponge attached to a car battery) by albino villain Mr.In the stirring conclusion, human-being Decker offered himself up tophysicallymerge with V'Ger (symbolized by uniting with its android probe Ilia) to provide a "human quality" - to merge man and machine; the merging took place in a dazzling, explosive shower of white light, creating a new glowing alien entity or non-corporeal life form ("We witnessed a birth.