" She already knows about the murder, but is inquisitive about how Boz died.Nick fills her in: "With an ice pick."Their questioning reveals her cold, icy, overtly sexual, fast-track life style:Nick: How long were you dating him?Catherine: I wasn""t dating him.His nightly memories are of a real event in Manchuria that have been distorted by the psychological programming.He crawled a few feet before Jason ripped the spike up through his spinal cord(# 3 death).Nick invited Tina next door to the party, where she met, among others:"resident writer" Eddie (Jeff Bennett) - an aspiring science-fiction novelistspoiled, stuck-up, bitchy rich kid blonde Melissa (Susan Jennifer Sullivan)dope-smoker David (Jon Renfield)unattractive, homely and self-respecting nerd Maddy (Diana Burrows)her sexy pothead friend Robin (Elizabeth Kaitan)an African-American couple: Ben (Craig Thomas) and his black girlfriend Kate (Diane Almeida)Suddenly, Tina experienced a premonition-hallucination of Jason ("the man thing in the lake") killing Michael with a metal spike."]Now, I""m sure there""s some of you here today who hink of us as such.And I should like to ask anyone who has called us well-meaning amateurs to stand up by his chair and tell me just why a well-meaning amateur is any less reliable than a well-meaning professional at a moment like this.They returned o a slightly similar theme two years later in their screenplay forBall of Fire (1941).Other spin-offs of the Ninotchka theme include MGM""sComrade X (1940)with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr (in he Soviet Union), andThe Iron Petticoat (1956)with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope (in London).