" He also notes, however, that when a diamond bracelet disappears in France, hey shout: "John Robie, the Cat!" By contrast, Hughson doesn""t have to justify his honesty to anyone:You don""t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.Phyllis: Just my name.Neff: As for instance?Phyllis: Phyllis.Neff: Phyllis, huh.I think I like that.Phyllis: But you""re not sure.Neff: I""d have to drive it around the block a couple of times.Phyllis: (Standing up.) Mr.Neff, why don""t you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? He""ll be in then.Neff: Who?Phyllis: My husband.You were anxious to talk tohim, weren""t you?Neff: Yeah, I was.But I""m sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.Phyllis: There""s a speed limit in this state, Mr.Neff, 45 miles an hour.Neff: How fast was I going, Officer?Phyllis: I""d say around 90.Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.Neff: Suppose it doesn""t take.Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband""s shoulder.Neff: That tears it...(He takes his hat and briefcase after his advances are coldly rebuffed.) 8:30 tomorrow evening, then.Phyllis: That""s what I suggested.Neff: You""ll be here too?Phyllis: I guess so.I usually am.Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.Neff: (Opening the entrance door.) I wonder if you wonder.After his first encounter with her, there is a clear mutual sexual attraction between them.In hindsight, Walter mostly remembers the pure physical magnetism he felt for her lethal "honeysuckle" perfume smell (purchased by Phyllis in Ensenada - across the border, she later tells him) - even though he realizes she had a strangely calculating look:It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember he smell of honeysuckle all along that street.Her image dissolves into the sight of a teletype machine printing out a message [symbolically connecting her to the murder of Lucy Chapman].As he rides on his horse and approaches Rock Ridge, the music swells - he passes by the Count Basie band on the dusty plains (Count Basie has an uncredited cameo as he plays "April in Paris" on a white piano with his jazz band).He told himself: "Gotta stay awake" as he opened the medicine cabinet to take an anti-sleeping pill.When he had a momentary sighting of Freddy Krueger behind him in a mirror reflection, he dropped the only pill down the sink.