The manic lunacy is enhanced by the stealthy, nocturnal arrival of additional crazy characters on-the-run.The simultaneous, opposing movements - a forward zoom and a reverse tracking shot - also represent the attraction and repulsion that the main protagonists experience in their relationships." Independently of each other, Ryan and Cortez discovered that the explosion was not a car bomb, but a cellulose encased laser-guided bomb deployed from a US aircraft (Cortez stated: "The Americans are here").When she wrestles with him for the tab, he first teases her, withholding the tab from her.But when he learns she""s "Joey Doyle""s sister," he gives her the working tab.She gives it to her humiliated father so he can work.Father Barry asks he rejected men who have been denied work: "What do you do now?...Is his all you do, just take it like this?...Huh? What about your union?" He is told that the lawless local union is mob-controlled by Johnny Friendly: "The waterfront""s tougher, Father, like it ain""t part of America.