He spoke about his family""s tradition of honoring and photographing kin upon their deaths, and showed her his zombified wife Sally (Heather Allin) chained up in the kitchen.The impact of the punches, the glaring bright lights, and the pearls of sweat which are flung off by every blow are intensely real.When my friends do it, I resent it.From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz, I should find it intolerable.(He pushes away his typewriter stand.) Hand me that washcloth please, Mr.__ , Mr.__ ?McPherson: McPherson.(He tosses the washcloth at Lydecker, stands, and turns away.)Lydecker admires McPherson""s reputation for hard-boiled, ough-nosed police work: "The Siege of Babylon, Long Island...you""ve been framed, you poor sap...Oh you decoy, you wooden-head decoy, and you let ""em.You know what you are? Well, you""re the goat.You are the sacrificial goat.You are a sap because you let ""em....He didn""t even get anything out of it.Oh, they""d have paid you to take a rap like that, but they didn""t have to pay a sap like you.Oh no.You were so full of yourself and hot air.All you wanted was a chance to stand up on your hind legs and make a speech.""My Friends.My Friends, What This State Needs is a Good Five-Cent Cigar.What this State Needs Is A...""After learning that he was used, Willie promptly proceeds o get drunk from a bottle of bourbon and then passes out.