Imperiously using the pet shop phone, she calls Charlie - a journalist/acquaintance at theDaily News, who works at the City Desk (and for her father, an executive)." Explaining that they now had the advantage with their silent caterpillar drive, he boasted: "We will leave our fleet behind.A lobotomy would excise her memory of a past troubling incident and prevent mad and hysterical ravings from occurring.He is infuriated and enraged - with an accompanying snare drum beat, he follows her back to the house and cocks his fist to hit her, but hen hesitates - he cannot quite bring himself to strike her.The plot hickens when the clerk realizes that his building's elevator operator (MacLaine) is being taken for trysts by his married boss (MacMurray) o his apartment.