Four co-screenwriters (Robert Benton, David and Leslie Newman, and Mario Puzo) were responsible for the script.As a therapeutic solution to his life, Bickle even offers to work Jewish holidays and ride into the city""s sleaziest areas - he explains that he might as well get paid for wandering haphazardly:Bickle: I can""t sleep nights.] As Dumbledore left, Tom revealed: "I can speak to snakes, too.They find me.Whisper things." At Hogwarts, Tom Riddle became close to one of the teachers of the past, Professor Slughorn, who retained a memory critical to Voldemort""s defeat, and Dumbledore instructed Harry to further confide himself closer to Slughorn to learn more.[Note: It was 12:35 am, just a little past midnight.]2:30 amTwo individuals were introduced in the town""s all-night greasy-spoon diner, the Compton Cafe:Officer Sam Wood (Warren Oates), a uniformed deputy slurping loudly on a tall soda drink as a customer at the counterRalph Henshaw (Anthony James), the sweaty, teenaged waiter-worker entertaining himself by killing flies with a thick rubber bandSam authoritatively demanded that Ralph act subservient, and call him: "Mister Wood" or "Officer Wood" instead of by his first name.He sends Terry on an "extra detail" to sit in on ough, insistent Father Barry""s meetings (with the "Doyle girl") hat he is organizing in his parish to expose union racketeering.