[Her body was then hidden in the hallway closet.]Fixing popcorn on the stove in the kitchen, Chuck was asked about the source of screaming that his girlfriend Chili had heard in the house.On her way into the Davidson""s Pet Shop, she passes an exiting customer [Alfred Hitchcock himself in his customary cameo] being guided and pulled along by a pair of terriers [Hitchcock""s own dogs Geoffrey and Stanley] on leashes.Lydecker: Did I?McPherson: Yeah.But he was really killed with a sash weight.Lydecker: How ordinary.My version was obviously superior.I never bother with details, you know.McPherson: I do.Because murder is his "favorite crime" and he writes about it regularly, the renowned, droll columnist Lydecker insists on helping McPherson in his assigned investigation, even hough he is a suspect:I know you""ll have to visit everyone on your list of suspects.Cold-blooded"), and to mount a vengeful attack to kill all of Gotham""s first-born male infants (recalling the story of Moses and the Pharaoh in the Bible, and also his own experience as a child) by drowning them in the toxic underground sewage water.