Lydia Brown (Mary Alden), Stoneman's mulatto housekeeper, "is aroused from ambitious dreamings by Sumner's curt orders." Koba asked for forgiveness, in a supplicant position: "Forgive me." Later, one of Koba's two cohorts asked him: "You didn't tell Caesar about the guns we found?" Koba was hatching a secret plan o take over control from Caesar, and told one of his cohorts: "Neither will you.]The scene quickly dissolves to the cafe that evening - at one edge of the airport runway.An airport's beacon light sweeps across the exterior of the cafe - resembling a prison's circular searchlight to emphasize the forced confinement of everyone in the city." Before their posturing, arrogant battle of wits and sarcastic repartee, he proposes to treat her to a Coke in town.[Note: This was the well-known partnership's last collaboration].The story follows a good-natured, flighty novitiate (Andrews) who is hired to care for the seven children of a militaristic, icy, widowed Austrian captain (Plummer).