I almost gave up hope." She asked if he found what he was looking for -- he said he was unable to find his homeland""s planet or any survivors of Krypton after its "distant remains" had been discovered by astronomers: "That place was a graveyard.If that ol"" woman breaks down and dies on my place, I ain""t gonna get stuck with the funeral expenses.Velda: You never need me when I""m around.Another visitor is "flatfoot" police detective Pat Murphy (Wesley Addy) who jokes about Hammer""s revival: "Three days ago, I was figuring I""d have to finance a new tux to bury the corpse.There are other nightmarish flashbacks of Joe and his girlfriend Annie.In a brutal image, they are pulled from making out in their car by enviously-jealous Texas males.An angry young Joe breaks a bathroom mirror.He finds himself back in his own flop-house hotel room, sitting in the bathtub and watching a TV show, where the host emphasizes he existential predicament that he faces: "Isn""t this really a case of conning a lot of lonely people?" Joe walks into the netherworld of New York""s Times Square, a place of desperation, futility, dashed hopes and false dreams.After the mischievous Draco spied on them with Hagrid and reported their after-hours wanderings to Professor McDonagall, the trio was given point deductions, and all four were punished with detentions.