" The doctor explained the substance of dreams:"Mysteries.Incredible body hocus-pocus.The truth is, we still don""t know what they are or where they come from."After awhile, Nancy drifted into deep sleep, with rapid eye movements (REMs) indicating that she was dreaming.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.He returns o his dingy apartment, where he sleeps in the living room.He is visited in the dark, early morning by Polhaus and his superior, Lieutenant Dundy (Barton McLane).He had also directed the Kanin""s first screenplay two years earlier forA Double Life (1947)starring Ronald Colman.The driver swerves to avoid the apparition while applying his screeching brakes.His tires squeal as he pulls sharply off the road into a swirling cloud of dust and barely misses running her down.