The ex-champ applied to the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission to issue him a discretionary professional boxing license, so that he could compete again." [Appropriately, the half-hidden director of the film is shown holding all the cards - the full suit of spades, and he is similarly regarded as being sick by the doctor: "You don""t look very well either." Kittridge viewed Phelps on the wristwatch and greeted him: "Good morning, Mr.Phelps." The two were stunned by the devious disclosure - and Phelps threatened to kill Ethan.When Claire again advised: "Don""t, Jim," he shot and killed her.Phelps knocked Ethan down and escaped through a ceiling trap door leading to the train""s roof, where he awaited helicopter pickup from his other traitorous partner - Krieger.Stanley Kubrick abandoned his own plans to make a similar film in the planning stages, called "The Aryan Papers" - based on the Louis Begley novelWartime Lies.