The magistrate could not possibly, on the evidence, have held them for a higher court. On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants; although they believed that the accused were among them. Cross examined by the clever attorney who had been engaged by McGinty, they were even more nebulous in their evidence.

Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.

The script was co-written by filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (with Matt Charman) and the Berlin section's blend of menace and humor feels much more Coenesque.