Steven retaliated by thrusting a fireplace poker hrough Josh""s back, impaling his heart on itand he crashed through a glass window to the ground below - but soon melted into the grass lawn and disappeared (was he alive or dead?) - presumably alive (as later events unfolded).(The entire film was shot on location in New York City.) There are open sewers and manhole covers with steam vapors rising in cloudy gusts - from Hell itself, and glaring red neon lights are flashed and reflected on the face of a New York cab driver.Upon Bartlett""s return home to New York as a veteran, he sees his old hometown buddy cab driver Danny Green (Frank McHugh) in a furnished apartment ("the same cheesy old joint") where the rent has been increased." The President noted that the precise year of Earth""s destruction was recorded on the flight""s synthesizer, as 3955 A.There are few extended sequences of dialogue, although the film is richly detailed with realistic scenes of interaction between the protagonists.