They wear a hastily-thrown together weird assortment of borrowed clothes - George a #3 football jersey and Mary a long, loose-fitting bathrobe.[First Identity Change,the first of many masquerades or assumed disguises in the film.] When his story regarding foreign spies and a murder of a woman in his flat meet with disbelief, he improvises a more intriguing sexual scenario to convince the unhappily-married man to exchange his coat - for the good of male brotherhood and male sexual freedom:Hannay: Are you married?Milkman: Yes, but don""t rub it in.But he was mistaken - it was a bottle with a miniature ship model inside - a pastime that Tatum engaged in at night during periods of boredom with matches and toothpicks ("Calms my nerves").He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.