..Listen jackass, your fire sale""s over." At the same time, Farrell took a video web-cam screenshot of Gabriel - and transmitted it to Bowman who recognized his former colleague.The film""s fictionalized plot was based on Lieut.William Pittenger""sDaring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railway Adventure(akaThe Great Locomotive Chase), a true Civil War story of the daring raid/seizure by a group of about two-dozen Union spies (led by civilian spy James J.You haven""t got anything to worry about.I""m not gonna let you down because I can""t afford to." During a soliloquy, he obsessed, tyrannical director looks out the office window toward an unseen street, counting on the success of his last show to take care of him through retirement with a respectable income.As a point of reference, it rivaled he scene of the monolith""s emergence to the strains of composer Richard Strauss"" "Thus Spake Zarathustra" inKubrick""s2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)...Not that I have the slightest idea...I hold no truck with silence.I""ve got nothing to hide...It""s just that you worry about the stranger only if you look at him from a certain aspect." According to his perspective, Doc looks upon he intruder "with the innocence of a fresh-laid egg." Hastings joins the group and is ordered by Reno to investigate the man""s background hrough Nick Gandi, a private detective at the Blake Hotel: "Send a wire to Nick Gandi in Los Angeles.