Inside the club, Sidney listens to naively-sexy, dumb-blonde Rita tell about her recent refusal of a proposition to have sex from club patron and newspaper columnist Leo Bartha - and the consequences: "I""m being fired for what Ididn""tdo.However, as the door closed behind her, Tommy was revealed, wearing the hockey mask - and this time, preparing to attack her with his upraised machete.An unspecified time later, McCabe rode to the nearby valley town of Bearpaw, the business center of the region, where he approached a bearded gentleman named Archer (Tom Hill), a pimp running a brothel, to spend his evenings"" winnings by purchasing a few of the whores as an investment.BackgroundGaslight(1944) (akaThe Murder in Thornton Squarein the UK) is a superb, definitive psychological suspense thriller from ""woman""s director"" George Cukor.