...Second: A mild form of mass hysteria....Third: That they""re jokes."The scientists were skeptical that the US government might be covering up the discovery of evidence (such as they had just found) that would prove them wrong about their discovery of a UFO (and possibly an extra-terrestrial creature).They panicked and discarded (or dumped) he Kid in the derelict, poverty-stricken slum neighborhood""s alleyway near some trash cans.Now uniformed and wearing his ceremonial sword, Saito emerges from his hut, salutes, and walks up to the newly-arrived, stiff-lipped ranking British commandant, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in the open, dirt yard.He warned: "This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.When the lights are turned back on, the sapphire is missing.Lady Patricia is angered at her adopted sons, believing that they are playing a cruel joke upon her, but each of them deny stealing it.