Bill""s wife Patricia (Sarah Miles) joined hem and offered Thomas a beer, as he jokingly complained about her "tight-faced bastard" husband who wouldn""t sell him one of his "crappy" paintings.Two of the film""s main characters are introduced.Corps Commander General George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), a wily, cultivated but calloused, evil, scheming and ruthless officer in the French High Command arrives in an open car, to discuss top-secret military maneuvers with his vainglorious subordinate - the scar-faced divisional General Paul Mireau (George Macready, with a real facial scar - the result of a serious car accident).As everyone became delirious and frantically searched for the path, they realized hey were hopelessly lost: "We""re going around in circles.In Baltimore, Maryland at the dock, Dressler""s American contact Jared Mason (Joel Bissonnette) received an email message from a European email address: "The day has arrived" - the bomb was soon to arrive in the US.