The sergeant reacts: "Well, if you gotta go, that""s the way to do it." Seated up front, he waiter serves him the only beverage available - coffee - but it""s really laced with booze: "Scotch coffee, Canadian coffee, sour mash coffee":Sergeant: Better bring a check in case the joint is raided." The Triad was buying the release of the Four Fathers from the general - with counterfeited money.When Riggs, Murtaugh, and Butters confronted the general and Ku in the foreign trade zone, and the general learned that the money was counterfeit, he angrily executed three of the Four Fathers.The film was adapted from a story taken from Thomas Burke""s bookLimehouse Nights.Lillian Gish""s unforgettable performance brought intense critical acclaim to the film, although its main subject areas include child abuse, an inter-racial love affair (one of its first film renderings), drug use, racial bigotry, and murder motivated by revenge.And still, not all of them are back.There is alarming news that women""s skirts are going to become shorter.Already, they are six inches above the ankle.Bobbed hair is introduced but very timidly.A young upstart named Jack Dempsey is scheduled o meet Jess Willard for the heavyweight championship of the world.