Logan confessed that he had wanted a fresh corpse and had secretly switched bodies ("He's helping us more now than he ever did when he was alive")." Sidney tells Rita hat he is "avidly" paying attention, although he is only half-listening and half-interested (he's more attentive to the other people in the nightclub - the returning musicians and Susan and Steve's parting).[Note: Film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen paid homage to Sturges and his admirable film by naming their own 21st century filmO Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)?] After some failed attempts dressed as a hobo and companionship on the road with an aspiring blonde actress simply called The Girl (Veronica Lake in her second picture following her work inI Wanted Wings (1941)) and wearing boy's clothes, he succeeded in losing his freedom, identity and name, health, pride and money...it's bait, part of an internal molehunt," and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been "disavowed" - he then promised to "deliver the actual NOC list," while warning her not to open up the 'worthless' disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes.