After the getaway truck plowed into numerous vehicles, the trailer separated as the driver fled and he others got away, but Axel was ""arrested"" amidst a pile of cigarette boxes.When he moves toward the edge, the narrator - an attractive blond young woman (Joan Fontaine) walking nearby shouts oward him, fearing he is on the verge of suicide:Woman: No! Stop!Man: What the devil are you shouting about? Who are you? What are you staring at?Woman: I""m sorry, I didn""t mean to stare, but I, I only thought.He realizes his present state of inactivity, having been in Saigon a week - and fears that he is beginning to go a little crazy.Devlin: Just wanted to be friends.Alicia: Friends, yeah.You could frame me, hmm?Devlin: No, I""ve got a job for ya.Alicia: (unsteadily) Oh well, don""t tell me.There""s only, oh, here""s only one job that you coppers would want me for.Well you can forget it Mr....Devlin: Devlin.Alicia: What?Devlin: Devlin.Alicia: I""m no stool-pigeon, Mr.Devlin.Devlin: My department authorized me to engage you to do some work for us.There""s a job in Brazil.Alicia: Oh, go away.The whole thing bores me.Devlin: Some of the German gentry who are paying your father are working in Rio.Ever hear of the I.G.Farben Industries?Alicia: I tell you, I""m not interested.Devlin: Farben has men in South America, planted there before he war.They""re cooperating with the Brazilian government to smoke them out.My chief thinks that the daughter of a, uh...Alicia: A traitor?Devlin: Well, he thinks you might be valuable in the work.They might sell their trust to you.And you could make up a little for your daddy""s peculiarities.Alicia: Why should I?Devlin: Patriotism.Alicia: That word gives me a pain.No thank you.I don""t go for patriotism, nor, or patriots.Devlin: I could dispute that with you.Alicia: Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with he other.That""s your patriotism.Well, you can have it.After her initial reluctance, Devlin must contradict her claims to persuade and convince the "hard-boiled" lady o atone for her father""s sins and accept his offer.The set was the same one used for the apocalyptic, sci-fi film noirDark City (1998).Also, all of the street locations throughout the film were actual intersections in the city of Chicago, the hometown of the directors.