[Jerry presides over the customer in a role that he normally assumes - a powerless, overcharged victim.The opportunistic, elderly owner-merchant of the local bar/cafe, Kathie""s Uncle Frank Bleeker (Ray Teal) is pleased with the gang""s arrival and instructs his elderly dishwasher/bartender helper Jimmy (William Vedder):Jimmy, put a couple more cases on ice, will ya?The bar owner encourages their beer-drinking and invites them into the bar and restaurant: "Plenty more where this came from.A news report announced the weather anomaly of gale force winds and torrential rainfall that were "threatening to destroy the nation""s entire coffee crop for the next five years.He stops on the steps of the building and straightens his tie.She masks herself and ducks behind a news-stand as he stops o buy a paper.She follows him - they both proceed down subway station steps, along with jam-packed throngs of other pedestrians."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film, an ""origin story,"" was considered a prequel to all of the other films in the series, occurring chronologically beforeManhunter (1986)and its remakeRed Dragon (2002).