Shaw first identifies the member of the platoon that he dislikes he least.He names Captain Marco, but he is asked to choose a second candidate: "That won""t do, Raymond.We need the Captain to get you your medal." His second choice is Ed Mavole (Richard La Pore) whom he is instructed to "strangle...to death" with a white scarf.As Captain Marco yawns and the rest of the men sit placidly and bored with no emotion, Mavole is dutifully killed...get the mail...telephone the police and have them clear he field..." Trembling but remaining steadfastly stoic, Kid Dabb solicitously lights Geoff""s cigarette for him as they stand there paralyzed by the incident.He was looking forward to the next day, Halloween, calling it a "very busy day."SUNDAY, the 31st - HALLOWEEN.Cochran led Dr.Challis to the FINAL PROCESSING area, as he described how he had made the androids - "simple to produce," "another form of mask-making," and "loyal and obedient unlike most human beings.It is one of the greatest romantic earjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending.Lean""s film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over seven weekly meetings, mostly against the backdrop of a railway station.The third US astronaut, attempting to launch and flee in the lunar excursion module, was crushed and killed by Non.