" His guess was accurate, and he boisterously laughed as he was handed the empty purse.In his other hand, he revealed he had taken gold coins from the purse.Hungry, he noticed that a female was heating up a bowl of food on the upper balcony of her residence.He deduced that the lured police were heading into a trap - the concrete structure had been laced with explosives.J.Hunsecker - a stern, cold-blooded, morally corrupt, monomaniacal, and treacherous newspaper columnist (allegedly based, in part, on influential real-life Broadway gossip columnist Walter Winchell who could similarly make and break reputations).Later, Alfrid commiserated with the gout-suffering, authoritarian Master of Lake-town (Stephen Fry) about the mood of the commonfolk rabble, who were complaining about "jobs, shelter, food" and were possibly being stirred up by "troublemakers" (such as Bard).