[The film deliberately contrasts appearance with reality - the normally-romantic, glamorous setting of canals in Venice is really the setting for the mundane collection of garbage.The next morning, the young naive son is stunned when his father coldly treats him as an ordinary junior recruit ("you""ve got a great deal to learn").And he is dreaming, I suppose, of following in the footsteps of Goethe and Schiller, and I hope he will.Byer decided to attempt to eradicate all evidence of Outcome and its "intel-gathering assets" by shutting down Outcome immediately, and having the agents take triangular yellow pills - it was a trick to poison them.