She is surprised when Arthur""s cousin, the handsome, dashing and charming bon vivant Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) who has just returned from Europe, asks her to dance a waltz.Bannion.Why, Tom wouldn""t kill himself.He wasn""t worried about his health, not for a single minute."Lucy describes the unsavory details of how she had a thing for Tom ("he was a real wonderful guy...nice and gentle") and he was never happier, especially since Bertha had recently agreed o divorce him.Judah, we must believe in one another." They cross arms and drink to that pledge.The next day, Judah""s mother Miriam (Martha Scott) and his sister Tirzah (Cathy O""Donnell) also receive Messala warmly in their home, almost as one of their family."Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall), the Executive Senior VP of the network, who has been summoned from a dinner party (and is still in his tuxedo) races through the UBS offices to deal with he embarrassing crisis for the network hierarchy - the network""s downstairs lobby is swarming with every TV station and wire service in the city, and the station""s phones are clogged with viewers complaining about the foul language.