They appear as a mistrusting couple who decide to separate and file for divorce, but then attempt o sabotage and ruin each other""s new romances and affairs, and are ultimately reconciled to each other just before the divorce decree becomes final.She walks to the door, opens it, and invites him in.In the parlor inside the house while sitting next to her on the sofa in the foreground, he decides to be rid of the two boys on another side sofa so that he can court his girlfriend in private." They tenderly kissed, as Melissa jealously spied on them.Later, Tina was insulted by Melissa about being a crazy mental patient (in an inappropriate sight gag involving a backwards-worn jacket), and she retaliated by glaring at and breaking the strand of pearls around her neck.Newspaper reporter William Burke "Skeets" Miller of theLouisville Courier-Journalprovided on-site coverage of the rescue effort, and his interviews with Collins led to a Pulitzer Prize.