In the hallway at the top of the stairs are well-wishers - Miss Baker, Marcus, Maria, and others.A sinister-looking, cadaverous agent (a plaster bandage on his cheek covers a large boil) from the lottery company approaches and bows formally in front of Trina - she appears frightened and agitated.She is wearing a black outfit trimmed with white without a hat, nervously noticing and despairing that John, her love, hasn""t arrived yet.In the same year, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director for the Best Picture-winning filmRebecca (1940)- his first American film (Foreign Correspondentwas Hitchcock""s second film in 1940).They said the genetics research that your father was doing with Norman Osborn was very valuable, and that people would pay a lot for it.