Laura fantasizes and recalls the last few tumultuous weeks of her life while seated in the arm chair of her living room.(At first, his inverted face is superimposed over the left half of the screen.) There are panning shots of his dog tag, a pile of bills, his wallet, a woman""s picture, an opened letter and envelope, cigarettes, a glass and Cordon Bleu bottle, and a gun lying next o his pillow.He passionately and obsessively pursues drug pushers with his partner Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider).After hurriedly entering, she speaks out of the side of her mouth o her brother to hide her father""s coat: "Walter! Your coat back there.