With grand-standing tactics and Commie-baiting witch-hunting delivered from the audience, ""Joe McCarthy-ish"" Senator Iselin stands - in the background - and delivers bombastic, arbitrary rantings about the Secretary""s conclusions, as his manipulative, domineering wife in the foreground - who has fed her words into her puppet husband and is the power behind the scenes - watches his diminutive image on a live TV monitor next to her [the same events are simultaneously displayed from different perspectives].Chipping is astonished to be asked to "go abroad...it""s quite out of the question," and he resists.But he is cajoled o accompany his fellow teacher for his first summer vacation in Europe - at over 40 years of age." The governor, who suspects that the whole "John Doe" has been a phony set-up and "engineered by a vicious man with a vicious purpose," demands that Norton schedule a public appearance of John Doe."Denny (sneering): "I""ve been looking at her kind ever since my voice changed."Explaining why she was restless (partly from the tiger outside - "that alley cat yodelling out there"), Vantine entered the room and told Mac and Denny:"Don""t mind me, boys.As he begins eating a scoop of oatmeal on his metal tray, Andy picks out a squirming white maggot with his fingers.