" Mark threatened o come clean that evening and tell Tony everything about them - so that she could divorce Tony and be with him: "I""m gonna tell Tony about us tonight," but she dissuaded him.Tom was vain.He had to prove to himself that he was still attractive to women.Maybe he did boast to that woman that he was in good health.What else would you expect him to do?Bannion asks how they could afford an expensive second house in Lakeside and insinuates that their second home was probably beyond their humble means on a typical cop""s salary (Bertha: "A wealthy policeman would be a novelty"):There""s a chance that Lucy Chapman might try a little blackmail.Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis"" 1929 novel of the same name.Enraged, Eliot grabbed the IV pole and stabbed him four times in the body to show how the patient was really "dead" - but still alive as a zombie, and then finished the ghoul off with a jab to the forehead.Get your asses outta here....Look, you""re not stayin"" with me." However, she took an hour""s break, asked her co-worker Jeanne (Norma Dell""Agnese) to cover for her, and led them to her second-floor apartment, striding past whirring bulldozers and an ironic sign reading: "Atlantic City, you""re back on the map.