The detective accused her of concealing Velma""s signed picture from him.Jessie then claimed that Velma was dead: "She""s dead.She was a nice kid, but she""s dead." She reacted with surprise when told that "Moose" was out of jail "looking for his girl," but then denied knowing who he was: "I don""t know anybody by the name of Moose, copper...To stall for time by taking a later train (the 6:30 rain) rather than their scheduled 3:15 train - and to allow time o have a few swigs and smuggle liquor into his luggage, Don persuades Wick to attend an afternoon Carnegie Hall symphony concert with Helen: "I want to be alone for a couple of hours to kind of assemble myself.He exclaimed: "Oh, no.It""s impossible...It""s my ship." Further inside, he found the bridge security door (covered with a shatter-proof glass barrier) with the hand ID system still intact and operable.What remains of the film was directed by the ambitious, extravagant, stubborn and independent-minded Erich Von Stroheim - he spent nine months shooting the film and a total of fifteen months writing and editing it (from 1923-1924).Also, in later releases of the film, in thePastoral Symphonysegment (again), two black Nubian/zebra centaurs who attend the Bacchus celebration were edited out, along with a female pickaninny centaurette with braided hair named Sunflower who shines the hoof of a white female centaurette.