By the 1970s, with the rise of the feminism, female protagonists were fighting back, and something called the "final girl" archetype emerged--she was last one standing, thegirl who escaped the killer.
Then the finger joined thegirl, the tray banged shut, I was standing by my shopping cart, studying the mesh pattern of the collapsible wire basket, trying to recall what was already slipping away.
Firemen helped the young girl to safety from an outside parapet on which she was standing, and went in search of the French businessman, who was found and taken outside before being taken to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.