Griffin goes to see Bicycle Thieves when he hears David Kahane, the writer he thinks has been sending him threatening postcards, is at that theater.
Someone calls the studio, and leaves a message for Griffin, using the name Joe Gillis. Griffin doesn't recognize it at first, but then recovers, and tries to joke the man had earlier claimed they were Charles Foster Kane.
In his speech at the gala event Griffin attends, honoring him and the studio for donating prints to a film museum, he claims and the studio are looking for artists like the next Frank Capra, John Huston, or Orson Welles.
In the police station, Detective Delongpre references Freaks ("One of us, one of us").
When Griffin gets out of the lineup, Walter mentions how witness testimony is so unreliable, and mentions Witness for the Prosecution.
During a meeting at the studio the focus shifts to something going on outside like during a poker game in M*A*S*H.