They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father""s unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a Southern white woman.You caught Toots and me at a bad time.We were ready to bite anybody""s head off.Especially a certain blonde""s.Look, five of us, we come down here for the deep-sea fishing all the way from Milwaukee.More than a year, we""d been planning to come down here and fish our brains out.So what happens? One guy brings a blonde.And after we all swore up and down, no dames! But he""s gotta bring her, this guy.Well, if she isn""t drunk and crying, she""s got a hangover and arguing.One minute she gets sore at you and won""t talk to you at all.The next, she""s makin"" a play for you right in front of the guy! And he gets sore at us, mind you, not her.The rowdy, sweaty, tired group pops foam-spraying beer cans and carouses with drinking songs until quieted by the soft piano-playing of John - the proprietor of the bar.Knowing that he has not seen her daughter Elaine""s (Katharine Ross) portrait done the previous Christmas, she lures him up the stairs to Elaine""s bedroom.And we will take him down.You see, I served with him.I taught him everything he knows." McClane was skeptical: "Did things just get better or worse?" Using airphones, some of the planes were alerted, and others with enough fuel were diverted to Atlanta, but there were still a number of planes circling Dulles.