When the Wife runs off the tram to escape from him, she narrowly avoids being hit by heavy city traffic and is rescued by her husband.As Gwen and Peter shared ice cream while strolling along, he admitted that he had been following her once (or more) a day, to keep her safe and "because it's the closest I can get to still being with you...She took up with a lot of men back there at Ft.Bliss...This ain't no story...Sure is somethin' strange about that woman."Two inter-related, parallel love stories that are both emotionally-dangerous, forbidden and career-threatening are inter-cut ogether during the film's continuing sequences - the relationships are between:Karen Holmes and the Sergeant WardenPrivate Prewitt and a hostess named Alma at the New Congress ClubThe virile Sergeant Warden and bored housewife Karen meet at a park bench at Kuhio Beach Park in a clandestine meeting away from the base.You come back to work on the paper, and if we find we can't get along in a friendly fashion, we'll get married again.The reported $650 million he had skimmed was put into numbered accounts in various off-shore banks - and his partners, the Cali cartel, "killed him for it," according to Ryan, because he stole cartel money: "He was laundering money for the Colombian drug cartels.