North by Northwest Scene 16 Summary

  • The next morning, Thornhill's disguise: wearing a porter's outfit, he follows Eve with her bags. Cary Grant looks good in anything.
  • The train station's crawling with police, but Thornhill manages to go undetected even after they approach Eve. She says she hasn't seen Thornhill anywhere.
  • She also notices Vandamm and Leonard watching her with Thornhill.
  • We see the porter who's been bought off (he counts his money) to give his clothes to Thornhill.
  • In the bathroom, Thornhill changes into his own clothes while Eve says she'll call George Kaplan.
  • When Thornhill emerges from the men's room, changed and clean-shaven, Eve tells him that she reached Kaplan, who said Thornhill shouldn't meet him at his Chicago hotel but should instead go directly to "the Prairie Stop on Highway 41," taking the Indianapolis-bound bus.
  • Thornhill says he can rent a car, but Eve says Kaplan insisted that Thornhill take the bus. This way he'll be alone. He should just wait by the side of the road and Kaplan will meet him there.
  • Now, how suspicious is that?
  • Thornhill senses that something's up with Eve, but she won't say what. She hurries him off, saying the police are still after him and she sees them coming.