] After climbing he stairs, Lisa meets the occupant's mute assistant John, just as she hears her mother call her name one more time: "Lisa, what are you doing out there? Come inside.Obsession, memory...visions, hallucinations.It all started last summer." Mrs.Venable recalled how her neurotic young relative had suffered a nervous breakdown and threatened suicide following the death of her cousin Sebastian in Spain a few months earlier during the summer.In one of the film's classic scenes, a flabbergasted Mortimer does multiple double-takes and eyeball rolls.Afterwards as they sat at one of the tables, they listened in disbelief to a TV broadcast, in which the worried President abdicated "all authority and control over this planet to General Zod.