The Professor delineates the degenerative characteristics of the criminal brain - "the scarcity of convolutions on the frontal lobe.Bartender: I feel sorry for him.Always in reach and never able to do anything about it.Carter: I got a feeling she could do better.Bartender: You""re a boaster.Carter is unfriendly, dour and unsmiling due to the loss of his own "girl" (Rose Mapen) - according to the bartender, she immediately left town in the spring on the first stagecoach bound for San Francisco - to marry a rich Californian." Across the way in Lady Isabel""s opera box was her aristocratic niece, an ambitious young, red-headed English prima ballerina named Victoria "Vicky" Page (Moira Shearer).Haze...yes, he""s passed on.But, uh, when we were on our honeymoon abroad, I-I knew that I""d never felt married until I""d had myself addressed as seniora (she clicks her fingers above her head).]Plot SynopsisThe title sequence, accompanied by Saul Bass""s title designs and Bernard Herrmann""s chase theme music, starts with an unnatural, pale green screen that is soon shot across with upper-right o lower-left diagonal lines and vertical lines - gridlines that appear to make the green surface look like the gridwork of graph paper.