It appeared that they had become trapped here ("There""s no way out"), starved, and died.It was possible that this would be the Dwarves"" own fate, although Thorin vowed he would not surrender: "I will not die like this." He forcibly pulls her toward him and kisses her repeatedly, as she struggles and then goes limp in his arms.She claimed that she had left the getaway car and run to the bridge.He yelled at her: "Wake up Claire! Jim""s dead.They""re dead.They""re all dead." As he frisked her, she also asserted that she walked away when the "abort" command was given.She vowed that no one had sent her to him - she had returned as instructed, at 4:00am (as cathedral bells chimed to confirm her story).The tanned and coiffed criminal boss, Ellis DeWald (Timothy Carhart) ordered the assassination of all eight mechanics by his hit men, revealing towels in the gun attache cases from the Wonderworld Hotel, just before Foley arrived.Two previous, sexually-charged classicfilm noirsadapted from Cain""s novels had met with both critical and box-office success: MGM""sDouble Indemnity (1944)and Warner Bros.