" According to Lydecker, "Jacoby was in love with her when he painted it.But he never captured her vibrance, her warmth."McPherson is absorbed with opening up the phonograph console and putting on Laura""s favorite record when Lydecker asks him about his love life.But he recoils from her, rises on his crutches, sullenly makes another trip to the liquor cabinet, and shelters himself from reality by drinking himself into oblivion.During the Caine""s first major wartime mission, while escorting amphibious Marine attack boats toward a Japanese-held island beachhead for a landing during an enemy shelling, the unnerved and anxious Queeg seemed to illustrate weakened resolve." When the Israeli pilot was momentarily distracted, his jet was shot down over the Syrian desert, and the flaming wreckage (including the unexploded bomb) was eventually hidden by blowing sand.