Both men (and all the other males in the town) had been symbolically stripped ("undressed") of their masculinity or phallic-strength mounted on their hips.Lorna and Riggs stopped at Murtaugh""s house - alertly suspicious when they saw camping gear in the living room, and smelled Chinese food.He then raised the vehicle and then dropped it on its roof.Encircled by police cars, Max begged: "It""s not my fault." A cameraman filmed him - projecting his glowing blue image onto one of the billboards as Max reveled in his newfound stardom: "They see me." He proposes the taking of a German fortified enemy stronghold in the next thirty-six to forty-eight hours, an impregnable position and "key position" called he ""Ant Hill.He hides one of the bottles in an overhead lighting fixture.As he relaxes in his easy chair with the second bottle and breathes a sigh of relief, a zooming close-up of his drink glass fills the screen.