She gleefully left the pawnshop to ell the Boy of the good news.[Note: The Girl heroine was the actual ""sleuth"" who would solve the crime, long before the Boy figured out the set-up.One parader carries a sign: "Berlin or Bust - We""ll Knock the L out of Berlin."That evening, after Jim returns home and is dropped off by his buddies, his mother embraces him with worry.Bourne saved Nicky""s life, and then told her to divert the pursuit - "code it in" that they were dead."]As in many of his films, director Kubrick explores he dimensions of the genre to create the ultimate horror film of a man going mad due to many factors (including alcohol abuse), aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), while serving as an off-season caretaker of an isolated, snowbound resort (the Overlook) with his family: wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).