That evening, Cora asks her husband if he could give he newly-hired man a "week""s salary and let him go" - fearful of the consequences of their close proximity to each other.Earlier, Kirk had applied for a promotion o the position of Vice Admiral on theYorktown, and recommended hat Spock replace him as Captain of theEnterprise.The film was originally titledThe Blind Run -the same as the title of the series of vignettes, both violent and strangely erotic, that Ray had penned.Exasperated by the time they arrived at the Savoy Hotel, Jones forgot his derby hat in the cab.But he was able to directly ask for Van Meer""s opinion about "the possibility of a general war." Van Meer responded with only one despondent comment: ""My boy, I feel very old and sad - and helpless.