" The waifish boy was found unwanted, starving in the streets of the city, "kicked and bruised and almost dead.A flock of gulls rest on the water""s surface in the distance, and faint bird sounds appear on the soundtrack.The urban-jazzy, sometimes discordant score by Elmer Bernstein (and Chico Hamilton""s jazz Quintet) enhances the swanky, pungent underworld maelstrom of nightclubs and restaurants (the 21, the Elysian, Toots Shor""s), the theatre district, brutish cops, cheap offices, crowded sidewalks, and dead-end alleys.They have just stolen $25,000 from the Lompoc State Bank (where Og works as a bank teller).Egbert sits on a Lompoc Municipal Bus Line bench that topples over onto already unconscious Loudmouth McNasty (the other robber Repulsive Rogan escapes without the money) and snares the criminal...a lot depends on the impression you make on him.David:...I""ll wow him.I""ll knock him for a loop.Alice: David, No slang.Remember who and what you are.David: Oh yes, that""s right.When exiting the scene, the flustered David extends his hand to shake Professor La Touche""s hand (rather than being frustrated in attempting to kiss Alice a second time): "Good-bye Alice.