In fact, Karas' musical instrument was a leading film character and advertised as such: "He'll have you in a dither with his zither (a laptop string instrument).Now get out of here before I throw my desk at you." They often banter with each other in their easy-going relationship within the company.When Keyes pats his pockets for a match and comes up empty-handed, Walter quickly lights a wooden match for his cigar (one of many such instances in the film)...it's bait, part of an internal molehunt," and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been "disavowed" - he then promised to "deliver the actual NOC list," while warning her not to open up the 'worthless' disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes.[Note: The irony of Wood's film role here was that her accidental drowning death in 1981, off of her yacht named theSplendour, was pre-figured by the shocking bathtub scene and an attempted suicidal drowning scene at the reservoir.To him it was a metaphor for he decay of contemporary culture.The same lack of individual integrity hat caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning he town of his dreams in.