She had gone to the icebox for a bit of supper.He thought she was a burglar, he said.He shot her five times in the head.Elsa: He had a good lawyer.Michael: I saw his picture in the newspaper.Bainbridge or something.Elsa: Bannister.Michael: Yeah, Arthur Bannister.It said he""s the world""s greatest criminal lawyer, in fact, the world""s greatest criminal.Elsa: Some people think he is.To his surprise, she offers the between-jobs sailor, as a form of repayment, a job as a crew member on her sailing vessel o the West Coast that leaves the next day.Abby also delivers one of the film""s most memorable lines - a sentimental remembrance of the last words of one of their victims:One of our gentlemen found time to say, ""How delicious!""When Mortimer insists that they must do something, Abby reprimands him for acting crazy: "Now Mortimer, you behave." The reverse of the word, woodpecker, referred o a literally red-headed and red-necked bird.Its second meaning was sexual - the foreskin of a penis (or prepuce) - literally the ""peckerhead."" Another related, similarly-defined term in the film was "Whicker bill."]In the plot, tenant sharecropping farmer""s high-school aged son Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) was pressured to not forget his place in life and to pick cotton in the fields for rich Southern cotton plantation land-owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill).Each of the screens is blown or swept away with cigarette smoke.In the opening sequence, an unidentified hand and finger press in the doorbell buzzer of a mansion doorway.Hasslein""s description of the complicated nature of time travel in his TV interview in the third film).