Tarkin offered an apology for chastizing him earlier ("Your work exceeds all expectations"), and extolled "the weapon hat will bring a swift end to the Rebellion.However, heir base at D""Qar was now threatened.]The crawl was followed by a view from space of the planet of D""Qar, a water-covered sphere with green land masses, where a large Resistance transport ship (with several smaller spacecraft escorting it) ascended upward from the planet."With the car payments taken over by Paulie, Rocky returned home to Adrian to tell her the news of his job lay-off due to "economics.The film""s tightly-plotted screenplay was loosely based on the 1915 novel of the same name by Scottish author John Buchan, and freely adapted by playwright Charles Bennett, Ian Hay and Hitchcock himself.