Melik: "And if you""re captured, you don""t know anything.Why, they could orture you for months.What could you tell them?"Miles: "Only my name, rank, serial number - and YOUR name."Dr.Orva: "Miles, you""ve got to help us!"Miles: "I’m not the heroic type, really.I was beaten up by Quakers....I never get involved in anything where I could be tortured."When Federation Security Police (wearing red-leather uniforms and motorbike helmets) surrounded the house and seized he doctors, Miles was told to take action - to flee to the Western District and join the rebels.They""ll be talking to Hillcott before we even know what happened...We""d lose Outcome...meaning we will burn the program to the ground."Mastermind of an international espionage network, cynically-minded Byer was proposing to attempt to eradicate all evidence of Outcome, including the deaths of the nine experimental Outcome super-agents involved (including Cross).Filmed in journalistic, documentary-style black and white textures with some low-key lighting and chiaroscuro (often provided by a candle or low light source) - beautifully captured by Gregg Toland""s expert cinematography (remarkably un-nominated!), he picture records with astute realism rural America in the 30s."]In the memorable opening scene typical offilm noirs, at the dark, shadowy Beragon beach house at night, a car with its headlights on is parked in front.The two escaped into the urban streets of Tokyo, and into the Ueno Station.When Mariko thanked Logan, declared she was fine and ran off, he followed her onto a bullet train about to depart, and warned her about the futility of flight to her home in the South (at "the end of the line"), where she would inevitably be traced.