..It""s very peaceful, very still") as a contrasting and juxtaposed optimistic counterpoint to the more depressing, "pretty violent" and disturbing pictures earlier in the book.And I shall be invincible." At that moment, Jonathan located Evelyn, who ordered her brother to open the Book of Amun-Ra and find the inscription, while Rick fought off the skeletal mummies with his sword and rescued her.There, a cool-headed Spade talks with plainclothes Police Sergeant Tom Polhaus (Ward Bond), who shows him the location of Miles"" body sprawled near some rocks and the murder weapon.- places hat have connections with the past or with death.]The next day, in fantasy-like, soft-focused diffused light, he trails the gray-suited woman in her light-green (!) Jaguar sedan all over San Francisco as she drives around and around (almost always driving down streets, going left then right, left then right).The tough, ruthless cop""s selfish, solitary pursuit of the white-hot apocalyptic object in a mysterious ""Pandora""s box"" ("the great whatzit") leads to nuclear catastrophe and annihilation during the explosive ending at a Malibu beach cottage - although there is no explicit mention of the words bomb, atomic, or thermo-nuclear in the nihilistic film.