" He sees them off at the train station.Following the orders of Helen and his doctors, he has promised in their absence to eat properly, and not to smoke or drink.It is one of the greatest romantic earjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending.Lean""s film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over seven weekly meetings, mostly against the backdrop of a railway station.All scum").After a funeral ceremony led by religious leader Dillon (Charles S.Dutton), the bodies of Newt and Hicks were cremated in the facility""s furnaces, while in another location, the alien erupted from Spike""s convulsing body ("a new beginning")." Gwendolyn hreatened Griselda (calling her a "creature of evil") if her prophesy didn""t come true: "If this be not my true love, and I am faced with marriage to Griswold, you will die, and by my hand.