She gleefully left the pawnshop to ell the Boy of the good news.[Note: The Girl heroine was the actual ""sleuth"" who would solve the crime, long before the Boy figured out the set-up.My name is C.C.Baxter - C.for Calvin, C.for Clifford, however most people call me Bud.I""ve been with Consolidated for three years and ten months and my take-home pay is $94.70 a week.The hours in our department are 8:50 to 5:20 - they""re staggered by floors, so that sixteen elevators can handle the 31,259 employees without a serious traffic jam.The film transitioned to five years later - as Caesar quickly grew in size as he lept from tree to tree.I was doing everything like in a dream.Like I was watchin"" myself, but I couldn""t help it - like a dream." She punctuates her entire rendition of the events of the day of the shooting with eating episodes (two rare hamburgers and lemon meringue pie, for instance), capped by her final line:Doris:.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.