The film continually questions the real character of Gantry - was he just a charlatan or a saving saint, or a combination of both?His first memorable appearance on screen in the speakeasy demonstrates his high-energy eloquence with words in an impromptu Christmas-Eve sermon." Upstairs, Mrs.Darlene Carruthers (Karen Alston), Jamie""s foster mother, was preparing a hot bath for Jamie.The film ended with a plot twist - through touch, psychically-linked Jamie was trance-possessed by Michael""s murderous and evil instincts, and stabbed Mrs.The main protagonists in the convoluted film appear equally as confused about the plot (the who did what to whom, what, when, and why questions) during clue-chasing as audiences on first viewing."The two fugitives sailed away from Manila on a local Filipino""s fishing boat, in exchange for the Rolex watch, earlier taken off the wrist of Mackie during chaos in the lab.