He then convinced the man to jump from the ledge - with himself ("I want to do it"), into a safety net many stories below.At seven twenty-five, you make your bed.Seven twenty-six, I make my bed.And then while you""re eating your eggs, I take out he papers and cans.At seven twenty-nine, you""re washing the dishes, and at seven thirty, we""re all finished.You see? It""s really very simple.He responded by simply asking: "Do we do all this railroad time or Eastern war time?", but she ignored his question.Then Aaron (Walter Coy) comes out and steps down from the porch, asking: "Ethan?" Martha doesn""t acknowledge what her husband has said."After initial career disappointments and on the verge of being penniless and hungry, at a celebrity cocktail party held in Easton""s penthouse apartment, Eva became drunk on champagne and completely uninhibited, first evident when she almost sat on Easton""s lap and blabbed on about herself:I shouldn""t be surprised if I""m a great actress." While various documentary-style shots of post-war, divided, fragmented and occupied Vienna (a ""frontier"" city dividing East and West - and governed by four Allied forces) are surveyed, an anonymous voice-over (from director Carol Reed) delivers a first-person prologue in the original UK version - suggesting that he had black market connections.