Responding with a weak "please don""t" when Frank approaches to kiss her, she is receptive to a passionate good-night kiss.Other dignitaries included the incumbent Mayor (Michael Murphy) who was opposed by evil and corrupt Gotham City polluter-businessman Maximillian Shreck (Christopher Walken), due to his plan to build an unneeded power plant (Gotham City had a power surplus)...So here""s nothin"" to worry about...What can he find out? That Komoko...Suppose he finds out.Smith: A nobody like Macreedy can raise a pretty big stink.The point is - who""d miss a nobody like Macreedy if he just, uh, say, disappeared? Who, Coley?...Pete: Why don""t we wait?...I mean, maybe he won""t find anything.Maybe he""ll just go away.Smith: Not Macreedy.I know those maimed guys.Their minds get wisted.They put on hair-shirts and act like martyrs.All of ""em are do-gooders, freaks, troublemakers.Pete: Let""s wait and see.There""s no danger yet.Smith: (To Coley) No danger, he says.This guy""s like a carrier of small pox.Since he""s arrived, this town has a fever, an infection, and it""s spreading.Pete opposes any talk of a hostile conspiracy to kill Macreedy: "You""re mighty quick to kill - and he""s not an animal.The story was taken from Dashiell Hammett""s 1934 detective novel of the same name, with a married couple that was supposedly modeled on the author""s relationship with longtime love and playwright Lillian Hellman."Finally, Bud is able to enter the vestibule of his own building, climb the stairs to his apartment, and find his key left under the mat.