The two had sensed via a scanner that an "energy source" had been in the lab, but realized it was now gone.He stepped forward and offered an engagement ring to her, but she was uninterested.Cora""s Ultimatum to Letty:Cora entered the room, and when she realized that both of their proposals had been rejected, she became very hostile.Incarcerated in a prison work camp as the end result of his misadventures, and as part of an audience of chain-gang convicts watching a screening in a Southern black church of a Walt Disney cartoon (starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto), he retained one final ability - - to laugh.They march.According to her, since the Captain""s wife died, he is aloof and cold and "runs this house as if he were on one of his ships again - whistles, orders, no more music, no more laughing.