" Driscoll really believes her life is in jeopardy and is feeling protective of her safety: "This is no place for a girl," he tells her.I can make them all go away." After a reckless car-chase almost ending in disaster, he saved her from dropping off a steep cliff while hanging from her car, and she agreed to talk to him about his proposal, without a "decent interval" before love-making.Wilks: I'm the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs.I'm the one that has to explain.You don't keep an office like this very long stepping on a lot of corns.Bannion: Do you want me to go upstairs and explain?Wilks: Not you.You're a corn-stepper by instinct."A corn-stepper by instinct," Bannion is not able to understand why he is ordered to lay off the case and "stop pestering the widow," since he now realizes that Lucy told the truth: "She talks to me just once - (he clicks his finger) - like that, she's dead.Owen and Claire drove further into the restricted area and discovered he destroyed Gyrosphere, and surmised that the boys "made it out" (muddy footprints revealed their flight) and bravely "jumped" at he waterfall to save themselves.After being summoned, Poelzig malevolently opens the door and looms in the background in a dramatic entrance.