During questioning, he asserts to the juvenile officer: "Nobody can help me."The housemaid answers all questions directed toward Plato, and explains how his mother habitually deserts him and his father left the family long ago:It seems like she""s always going away somewhere.I saw it." When Tina and Nick entered her house and went looking for her father""s pistol in the desk, she also discovered the tent spike and exclaimed: "Crews knew.His death caused an electrical blackout throughout Haddonfield.The darkened streets were deserted as Rachel searched for Jamie, fearing that she was being followed by the Shape.All we ever do is see movies....You""re one of life""s great watchers...I""m not like that, I""m a doer.I want o participate.We never laugh together.When she proposed contacting his lawyer, he responded: "I don""t have a lawyer.Have him call my doctor."The recently-divorced, shy, insecure and neurotic loser Allan sat in his room, where he was counseled by the trench-coated, fantasy ghost of his film idol Humphrey Bogart (flawlessly interpreted by Jerry Lacy).