Instead, we pay a police department." A spiteful, anti-authoritarian and rude Callahan is summoned into the Mayor""s office, where he crudely complains about waiting almost an hour: " Oh well, for the past hree-quarters of an hour, I""ve been sitting on my ass in your outer office, waiting on you."Instead, Lounds was ambushed by the killer in an underground parking garage, chloroformed, and kidnapped.The film has been criticized as being incomprehensible, due possibly to the studio""s pressure to shoot retakes of various scenes to avoid criticism about its sordid subject matter.[To Pickering] If you spoke as she does, sir, instead of the way you do,Why you might be selling flowers too.