Gordon.The insane Nygma""s project was terminated, although he feverishly worked on it.Caught in his cubicle late at night by his angered supervisor Fred Stickley (Ed Begley, Jr.) and threatened with expulsion, he used Stickley as a guinea pig for his experiment on brain waves.When Stickley ordered him fired ("You demented, bizarre unethical toad! It is brain manipulation"), Nygma pushed Fred (still wearing the intelligence-sucking head contraption) in his swivel chair through the side window to his eventual death ("You are fired, or should I say terminated?"), while grabbing the device from his head at the last minute.He locates a tin of salve just as the owner steps out of the house.He overhears a crucial conversation with the doctor about he farmer""s terminal illness:Farmer: You never think it""s gonna happen to you.But Eddie is found guilty and sentenced o sixty days in jail and fined $100.She thanks him for helping her beat the rap: "Thanks a lot.I""ll do the same for you someday." In jail, Eddie shares a cell with a suicidally-minded ex-soldier whose crime was a "stickup with a gun.Fortuitously, the platform came flush with the sidewalk every time his foot came down in a teasing sight gag.