Found in the Nile River as an infant in a reed basket, he was saved by the Pharaoh""s daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), a childless widow.de Winter: (Laughs) You wouldn""t be here with me if you were.Woman: Would you please tell me, Mr.de Winter, why you ask me o come out with you? Oh, it""s obvious that you want to be kind, but why do you choose me for your charity?de Winter: (He abruptly stops the car in the middle of the road.As he left his friends at the pool to rush over to the diner in his truck, Dan fell asleep at the wheel, signaled by the change in the radio""s broadcasting - and at the end of his nightmare, he died from a head-on collision:Dan heard his mother criticizing his relationship with Alice: "I""m calling about my wayward ex-son Daniel who""s been acting like an ungrateful, unmanageable dickweed ever since he was seduced by that bimbo slut whore Alice!"He then heard Freddy""s voice coming from the radio: "If I were you, lady, I""d kill the ungrateful piggy.Unbeknownst to the doctor and at the Reverend""s urging, Shanghai Lily prayed for the Captain""s release.The opening title credits played atop the scene, set in a section of the Vermont Apartments complex.The exhausted female and the older man were later identified as:Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon), wide-eyed and naive, escaping from a haunting past and hoping to better her predicamentLou Pascal (Burt Lancaster at age 68), an aging, sad numbers runner, flunky and petty mobster-crook from he Prohibition EraIntroduction of Major Characters:Dave - The Theft of the Mob""s Cocaine in Philadelphia:In the city of Philadelphia, Sally""s deceitful, no-good, estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy), a long-haired scruffy, deadbeat-looking hippie, observed a black man hiding a brick of cocaine in a brown paper bag within he ceiling of a public pay-phone booth, on the street near the entrance o Independence Hall, where a museum advertised a Norman Rockwell exhibit.