Jonathan recognizes "the home of my youth," returning as a "prodigal" son after wenty years.He bears a striking resemblance to "Boris Karloff" (and he monster in the horror filmFrankenstein (1931)) [Karloff originated the homicidal role on stage, but wasn""t released to star in the film, so Massey was ""made up"" to look like him], due to a previous bungled, face-scarring third operation (in a period of five years) while the careless Einstein was drunk: "That last face - I saw that picture too just before I operated.When the killer fell o his knees, the butt of the machete hit the floor, and his head slid down the blade embedded in his skull.He dismisses the idea of aking a dishwasher job.Low on money, tries to subsist on coffee and crackers covered with ketchup.Talking into a mirror in an underground subway tunnel, he resolves to degrade himself: "You know what you gotta do cowboy?" Outside a movie theatre on 42nd Street showing a black-and-white science fiction film, he hires himself out to a gay student, and during their sexual encounter in the darkened theatre, he experiences bizarre images of having sex with Annie, as she tells him: "You""re the only one, Joe".Cold-blooded"), and to mount a vengeful attack to kill all of Gotham""s first-born male infants (recalling the story of Moses and the Pharaoh in the Bible, and also his own experience as a child) by drowning them in the toxic underground sewage water.