A hearing was held by various government officials, including Justice Department representative Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta), during which Starling admitted: "This raid was an ugly mess," but she had a regrettable choice to either die or shoot a woman carrying a child.While she sits in the back seat of his open car in town, he brings her a single-dip ice cream cone which she childishly licks [this is not a symbol of her desire for fellatio, only a characteristic of her baby childishness].He was dusting off his clothes and boots with a handkerchief.She slipped away, went to him, and they became reacquainted.He swept her onto the dance floor.Meanwhile, Sourdough bragged to Cora about his intentions - that he was planning to propose to Letty ("I""m goin"" to pop he question to Letty tonight!").In the hotel suite of the three Soviet emissaries, Mercier the jeweler examines the jewels with an eyepiece and shrewdly bargains with the Bolsheviks over the terms of the sale of the jewels: "Very good, superb, excellent, it would be foolish to belittle the quality of the merchandise but your terms are impossible....Who are you, huh? What do you want from me? Son of a...For a moment, he dreamily envisioned a baseball diamond (with bleachers and floodlights) on his farm property.