- Ellie buys a bus ticket. She's headed for New York and is already having to sneak past detectives.
- In the same bus station, we meet Peter Warne, who's on the phone drunkenly yelling at his boss.
- The film cuts to the boss, an editor at a New York newspaper, who's having none of Warne's shenanigans.
- Back at the bus station, Warne pretends to tell off his boss… hiding the fact that he's actually been fired.