Hoffman's unknown co-star Jon Voight also received his first Best Actor nomination for his role as a disillusioned and dispirited Texas stud.During dinner at Springwood's only Thai restaurant, Nancy told Dr.Gordon that his patients were in "real physical danger from their dreams." She suggested "dream deprivation" by having the doctor prescribe an experimental psychoactive drug, Hypnocil, for the suicidal, surviving teenagers so that their nightmares would disappear, just until things were "under control.As she fires aimlessly, her husband withdraws into a corner of the room: "D-D-Doris, please-please-oh, don't, don't Doris, don't."On the sidewalk, the armed robber ran into Ben - they scuffled for his dropped gun - and Ben was shot and killed instantly.After finding the bloody corpse of his father draped over the wheel, Sean made a public announcement to all the students, calling them to assemble at the bridge.