He then motioned for the Girl o follow him into the adjoining dining room and closed the entryway""s curtain behind them." Mickey also wanted to increase Rocky""s speed: "We need greasy, fast speed!" by having him chase a live chicken around a neighborhood lot, a training method from his own boxing days, promising: "You catch this thing, you can catch greased lightning." Elster sets up Scottie by asking him (as the camera zooms back):Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being?At first, Scottie is comically skeptical and quickly refuses, although Elster believes that his wife is deeply-disturbed or possessed.The bars were the train station""s gate barrier or fence, and the noose was merely a track-side pickup hoop used by train crews to receive orders without stopping.Rocky surprised him by having a life-sized, talking female robot carry in his birthday cake (with his picture on the frosting), although Paulie was disappointed: "Yo, I wanted a sports car for my birthday, not no walking trashcan.