Believing that he couldn't live up to his father's aspirations, Kyle turned to drink and fast living.Inside, workers shovel coal into the red-hot, glowing furnaces, surrounded by the deafening noise.Molten iron pours out into molds.Quarrelsome Bill (Richard Gere) has an undisclosed, violent altercation with his foreman, punches him to the ground, and renders him unconscious - thereby forcing him to run from the scene and leave town as a fugitive.He wears a dark priestly robe and has a distinctive, jagged widow's peak on his forehead.Werdegast greets his old friend - or enemy: "It has been a long time Hjalmar.The years have been kind to you." Poelzig also takes a desirous, but repressed, covert interest in Joan.When they are alone together, Werdegast is outwardly cordial, but in a tense scene, he confronts and taunts his host Poelzig with raging animosity for betraying him (and thousands of other Hungarians) over fifteen years earlier.But he was mistaken - it was a bottle with a miniature ship model inside - a pastime that Tatum engaged in at night during periods of boredom with matches and toothpicks ("Calms my nerves").