On a nearby street, two undercover police officers trailed Otis (Ned Beatty), crime boss Lex Luthor""s (Gene Hackman) incompetent, buffoonish right-hand man, into Metropolis"" main train station, where he evaded them by entering an indentation/door in the track wall to approach Luthor""s underground Lair 200 feet below Park Avenue (a half-flooded, subterranean train station), but the pursuing officer lost his life when Luthor reversed the piston-driven indentation and pushed him into the path of an oncoming train." Because it""s "stuffy" in the house, she invites him to a "picnic" in a provocative,double-entendreladen conversation, linked to him by drinking out of the same glass:Alicia: It""s too stuffy in here for a picnic.It is a simple, timeless allegory of plain, everyday people in a story which attacks prejudice and bigotry."After initial career disappointments and on the verge of being penniless and hungry, at a celebrity cocktail party held in Easton""s penthouse apartment, Eva became drunk on champagne and completely uninhibited, first evident when she almost sat on Easton""s lap and blabbed on about herself:I shouldn""t be surprised if I""m a great actress.Ray: Things pretty rough for you at home?Jim: What a zoo!Ray: What?Jim: It""s a zoo.He always wants to be my pal, you know? But how can I give him anything? If he""s, well, I mean I love him and all hat type of stuff, and I-I mean, I don""t want to hurt him.