He recognized she was being held at Kolnas"" restaurant when he heard the sounds of caged birds during the call, as Grutas bargained with him for Murasaki""s life: "Bring me everything you have...To the primitive mind, any sufficiently-advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.But imagine: cities, vehicles, weapons, entire continents - all grown.To think that one could create a new world with such a simple little object.It""s like a seed.And all it needs is water." After a small portion of one of the crystals was cut off, Stanford dropped it into a pool of water within Luthor""s model version of the cityscape (with moving trains).He was apparently a ""kept man"" in servitude to the miserly, nagging, aging beauty queen - she displayed several nasty personal characteristics: she was a feisty, shrewish, broken-down (invalid and bed-ridden) moll - possibly a retired whore? She complained that she was "nobody""s hunchback," and reminded him of his 24/7 duty to her:You work for me, Lou! The cigarettes you put in your mouth, I pay for.Charming persuasively convinced them to join his cause, since they were all losers: "There are two sides to every story, and our side has not been told.Dr.Loomis predicted: "Now you""ll come, won""t you, Michael?"Outside the house, Deputy Eddy Grey""s (Fenton Quinn) parked police car was rammed from behind, and his face was repeatedly smashed against the steering wheel(# 9 death)- his death cries was heard on Deputy Bloch""s walkie-talkie.