What was with the 'I want your body' stuff?
When Douglas was on the phone. Some kind of code, or did they know each other? I wasn't fully paying attention.
shareI think they knew each other because Hester tells Gillian she has a boyfriend and that they met in a park. I don't remember if that part (when Hester tells Gillian about her boyfriend) came before or after the rendezvous she had with Peter in the van.
I'd also like to know if that scene when Peter is soaking wet, holding his pants up, and telling Hester over the phone "I need your body, baby!" is meant to be a funny scene. It's such an awkward scene because Douglas's delivery of that line is so hilarious. But is it supposed to be funny? I just can't tell because the humor of it completely ruins the context of the character. I mean, he is trying to save his son after all.
Oh, and another thing. Right before that phone scene when Peter eludes Childress at the construction site, why did he have his pants down to his ankles when he got out of the car? The two cops look down at his pants on the floor, and so does Peter himself before he picks them back up. I might've just forgotten but why was his pants down to his ankles while he was in the car?
The phone-call and rendezvous are the first time we see Hester, the conversation with Gillian comes later.
The sight of Kirk soaked in a phone booth is meant to provide light humour, to let the audience relax slightly in between the suspenseful situations he finds himself in.
The "obscene" phonecall is setup, and the reveal that he is panting due to hypothermia (and not because of perversion) is the payoff.
Even though the villains did not have her under surveillance yet, Kirk was a professional and could not take that chance. In case they had tailed her, she probably used some counter-surveillance moves he had taught her. After all, they stayed off the grid, in the van, rather than go back to her place.
The pants round the ankles scene is another light-hearted one. The pants fell down because they were a fat man's pants and he did not have a belt for them. The cops, OTOH (was that Denis Franz?), were held at gunpoint so they were worried he might act out the most famous scene from "Deliverance" ...
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