The apes were triumphantly signaled to continue their advance.The mutants watched the army advancing (they viewed the ruins of the skyline of New York City), worried that they now had no defense "except our Bomb.Also in the love triangle was an amoral, smooth-talking, flirtatious, already-married cattle salesman from Fort Worth named Roddy Wirt (Montagu Love) who first met her on the train journey.Mulwray is missing his glasses and one shoe, and his bow-tie is crooked.[Or was he the victim of profit-seeking, land-hungry opportunists whom he opposed, who are buying up thousands of acres of artificially-created drought land?] BackgroundClose Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) is director/writer Steven Spielberg""sfirstfilm after the enormously successful blockbusterJaws (1975).In the sensitively-executed scene, the younger Scout asks her older brother (off-camera) about their late mother who died when she was too young to remember:Scout: How old was I when Mama died?Jem: Two.