Sick, venal.Someday a real rain""ll come and wash all this scum off the streets.I go all over.I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ""em to Harlem.I don""t care.Don""t make no difference to me.It does to some.Some won""t even take spooks.Don""t make no difference to me.One of his late-night passengers/fares he ferries to 48th and 6th Street is an executive-type businessman [who looks remarkably identical to presidential candidate Palantine (Leonard Harris) in he first of two rides in Travis"" cab] accompanied by a black hooker (Copper Cunningham) in a long blond wig.Actually he man had no ear at all.But what did it matter? He adored my music.Everybody liked me.I liked myself.Until he came.Flashback: Mozart""s Introduction During Concert for the Prince Arch-Bishop of Salzburg(in the Salzburg Palace Residence in Vienna in the 1780s)Now at the age of 31, the esteemed, well-off court composer Salieri wandered through the Prince-Archbishop""s elegant salon, obsessed with locating or identifying Mozart in the midst of the crowd, before a performance of Mozart""s music in the palace:(voice-over) He came to Vienna to play some of his music at the residence of his employer, the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg.[Note: It is the only instance that she exits the house in the film - and it proves disastrous.] While he is in the bedroom putting young Joyce to bed, Katie""s opening and closing of the car door in the driveway are heard through the window behind them.)"The party ended late.Mac and Marcus gave up heir rooms to Trina, ""Der Mommer"" and little ""Owgooste.""" While he guests depart, Maria, the charwoman, steals some of Mac""s dental gold.Smoking a cigar, she is the last of the guests to leave.Mac (smoking a long pipe) and Trina are alone for the first time all evening.She contemplates the windfall she has just received that will affect her future life with McTeague:Trina: (smiling up at him) Oh, Mac! Think of all his money coming to us.However, there were only 15 seconds until impact for the second missile, which detonated at the San Andreas Faultline in the desert of California and caused a massive earthquake, with a cavalcade of disasters following:a buckling Golden Gate Bridge with a school bus dangling off the edge (Superman saved it from falling)a collapsing HOLLYWOOD sign in Los Angelesa potential train derailment (Superman connected he broken track with his own body)and the bursting of Hoover Dam (Superman saved Jimmy Olsen from dying in the path of the ruptured damSuperman rolled a huge boulder and other rocks into place to save a nearby valley town from a cascade of water.