The film ended with extra-terrestrial "first contact" being established between a landing spaceship of aliens (Vulcans) ("Live long and prosper") and humans due to Cochrane""s warp-drive flight, with Picard and crew witnessing the historic event before returning to the 24th century in theEnterprise.Late one night, an armed Milko snuck into the Medical Institute""s laboratory through a window where Lecter was working - the young lab student immediately sensed the intruder""s presence because of the opened window, came up behind him, and injected his jugular vein with a hypodermic needle to knock him out.To everyone""s surprise, he studio was besieged by letters from outraged patrons (mostly Clift fans) who complained that the film didn""t have a happy ending for the two lovers.After a long moment of silence during the heist inside he store (off-screen), he emerges with a wad of bills in his left hand and his gun in his right hand.