Later in the day, in one of the town's back alleys while collecting trash with fellow garbage man Cato (Ramon Bieri), Kit searches through trash cans for valuable items or to satisfy his curiosity about other people's lives: "This lady don't ever pay her bills.He proves his point to his son (with a painful fist) by explaining:That's what that's for.And then he boastfully taunts J.J.King: "If anybody else is caught on this boat...my son'll handle him." Willie emerges more assertive and defiant when he repeats the insult, although his father cuts short his boldness and conquest by dragging him away (inadvertently causing him to painfully straddle a deck cable).She retaliated with her own brief affair with a timid Iowa bank officer Sam Burns (John Lithgow).Meanwhile, middle-aged Aurora was dodging the womanizing flirtations of her next-door neighbor, a boozy, beer-bellied, over-the-hill, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), even though she had turned 50 and was now free to date." The giant Non struggled to duplicate Ursa's vision powers that he had not yet mastered.On the outskirts of East Houston, Idaho (a "Middle-American town"), the three Kryptonites blocked the road, denying passage to a police car carrying the paunchy local Sheriff (Clifton James) and his deputy Dwayne (Peter Whitman).