..kind of a combination office, Kaffee-klatsch, and waiting room.Waiting, waiting for the gravy train." He makes general SOS phone calls and other requests to everyone he can think of, but ends up empty-handed.Dr.Stuart commented: "Ten cents, ten million dollars - just doesn""t matter when a man""s time comes." In his bathrobe after being awakened in the middle of the night, Ted Ulam (Arthur Malet), the funeral director, responded: "I could give him a nicer service right here in Sparta than he could ever get up there in Chicago - and at half the price, too.In one brilliant inter-cut image, a tapir falls to the ground - the vegetarian man-ape will be able to hunt for food and kill a tapir with his new utilitarian ool.And if you ain""t man enough to do it for yourself, I""d be happy to oblige.I really would.Restless, he leaves his home - a room in the run-down Big Spring Motel, carrying an ugly cow-hide covered suitcase.He imagines water flowing over him in a super-imposed image - the water in which he intends to drown and murder his wife.