It was noted for its theme of repressed sexuality within the nun""s mission (located in a former brothel with sensual murals on the walls), where the nuns were sworn to their religious duties but fought off their nagging passions and temptations.[Director Hitchcock appears in his traditional cameo on the sidewalk outside Elster""s Mission District shipyard company - he walks left to right across the frame, carrying a black trumpet horn case that looks like an oversized flashlight.Moore), a young radio operator with earphones, a secretary, a cameraman, and other studio personnel - ""eight stooges"" - are wildly thrown about during the chase.Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks); Spock swam with the whales and engaged in a mind-meld, learning that the female whale was pregnant and the whales were unhappy with the way they were treated by humans (eventually made extinct); the whales were to be transported imminently to another location, putting them at risk of being hunted.