 Dr. Proctor frantically and desperately leaps into the crowd trying to smoke a cigarette.Reverend Brooks goes into the crowd to find and stop him while Merwin has a cigarette lighter, shaped like a gun, trying to get to Dr. Proctor.It just so happens that Odie Turman, an elderly conservative lady, has a real gun and is lurking about in the crowd and a drunken Edgar Stopworth has just arrived in time for the midnight deadline.