 Adams realizes he was not a malevolent figure, but rather a friendly angel of death sent to guide Adams to the other side.As the radio play ends, Adams expresses both his determination to find the hitch-hiker again and his concern that he has been unable to do so, ever since his call home.Immediately after their marriage in October 1939, Lucille Fletcher and Bernard Herrmann left New York for Hollywood, where Herrmann was to begin work on the score of Orson Welles's first feature film, "Citizen Kane".