Upstairs in the bedroom/sitting room, Maggie tells a cooly-detached Brick that she is sickened by her brother-in-law""s children and her sister-in-law""s perpetual fertility:One of those no-neck monsters hit me with some ice cream.It has a tintity voice, reminds me of poor old Moslin.How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away!He returns to the scene with the ladies and proposes o marry both of them: "Well, what do you say girls, what do you say, will you marry me?.The plane flight was sabotaged - the captain (Harold Macintosh) had been killed and replaced in "an operation designed to bring the plane down and make it look like an accident.He is existentially lost.Through a rainy taxicab windshield, we see he rainy, slick streets, an allegorical underworld vision composed of hustlers and derelicts, and a foreshadowing of the future tone of the film.