I have eleven years at this network, Max.I have some standing in the industry.I just don""t want to go out like a clown.It""ll be simple, dignified.The veteran news anchor is given another chance.Later in Diana""s office with various program developers - George Bosch (John Carpenter), Tommy Pellegrino (Michael Lipton) and Barbara Schlesinger, he head of the Story Department, the amoral, eager, go-getting and ambitious VP of programming excitedly proposes making a series out of real bank robbery footage (home movies negotiated from a revolutionary group of their own bank robberies - similar to Patty Hearst bank heists of the era) to bring more exploitative, tabloid programming o the financially-losing division:Diana: I think we can get a hell of a movie of the week out of it, maybe even a series.When barflys get killed, it""s for any one of a dozen crummy reasons, you know that.Let the Sheriff""s office sort out this jigsaw.Meanwhile, we""ll stop pestering the widow.Okay?...I""m telling you!Bannion is motivated to pursue the forbidden investigation and mystery even further.The scene in the Lieutenant""s office dissolves o a cocktail glass, held up in the air by The Retreat""s bartender Tierney (Peter Whitney) as he checks and polishes it for cleanliness.He served in Vietnam in a fragmented, schizoid, rifle platoon/troop under two radically-different, veteran officers who had served in earlier Vietnam tours -- contrasting and dueling Sergeants (one good, the other evil):Sergeant Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe), tough but fair, humane, saintly and compassionate, a pot-head, with doubts about the warStaff Sergeant Bob Barnes (Tom Berenger), battle-hardened/callous, face-scarred, remorseless, menacing, boozing, fierce and sociopathicIn he violence of combat against the Viet Cong, the two ""good"" and ""bad"" Sergeants clashed, forcing the recruit to examine his own loyalty and perspective toward violence.]It demonstrates his lyrical, gliding camera movements, long tracking shots, atmospheric melancholy and romantic dialogue, the recreated flavor of turn-of-the century Vienna, and the exquisite acting talents of its delicate blonde heroine - portrayed by 31 year-old actress Joan Fontaine.Poe attacked heDreadnoughtand was eventually able with his "puny ship" to blast away both of the surface cannons at close-range.