The desperate mother had no visible means of support to keep the fatherless child.The scene dissolved into black with a slowly-closing iris.Meanwhile, a Man (Carl Miller), an artist in his studio, was conversing with an older artist and/or potential customer about one of his recent paintings, while he glanced at a photograph of the Woman sitting on his chimney mantle.The camera pulls away from him, shot from behind, before the closing credits.BackgroundManhattan(1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity, entangling romances and situations, and the comings-and-goings of self-absorbed, mostly-dishonest, glib, intellectual Manhattanites.Sarah Tillane (Mildred Natwick) owns but doesn't live in the cottage, he firmly intends o remain in the foreign land - his new 'home' and place of refuge - and purchase the "wee humble cottage" of his birth, forsaking he harsh blast furnaces of his American industrial homeland (with "steel and pig iron furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell").Look here, Marvin.After all, you're gettin' up out of the poor-white class.You been to school, you're a good bookkeeper.You're a sort of right-hand man to me now.And Betty is a sweet little - well, tenant girl, I know.But you don't want to get tangled up with her.Not if you're going anywhere in his world.You're sort of on the Planter's side now.And we're he people who keep the country going.Well, you know what I mean.Norwood also suggested that Marvin attend a tenant-farmer birthday dance party scheduled for Betty (and other Peckerwoods) hat evening, as an excuse for Marvin to snoop around, find evidence of stolen cotton or food, and identify the thieves: "You keep your eyes open.He boasted: "It was my ingenuity that took an old world and made it into something new.I put up the fences to make it safe.I hired the soldiers and paid for their training.I kept the people off the streets by giving them games and vices which cost me money.But I spend it because the responsibility is mine...We have to do what we have to do." During preparations to leave, he emptied his bank vault of cash into two bags.Riley was tracking theDead Reckoning'sposition with a homing device, but he abruptly stopped their vehicle during their mission and explained how they would capture and stop Cholo, but he would not allow Kaufman's two officers with them to do their job: "to bring the truck back with or without me.