...It was my job to keep you winning and to keep you healthy." And then Mickey explained how Rocky had changed: "Three years ago, you was supernatural.You was hard and nasty.You had this cast-iron jaw.But then the worst thing happened to you that could happen to any fighter.You got civilized." Rocky felt that he couldn""t be retired, knowing all that he had just heard: "You""ve been carrying me.Shirtless in front of his mirror, he flexes his bronzed muscles.His tall Texan figure, taken with a telephoto lens, bobs through he densely-crowded, anonymous sea of people on Fifth Avenue.Don""t be a fool," and "Doesn""t he prestige of the Bolsheviks meananythingto you? Do you want to live in a hotel where you press for the hot water, and cold water comes? And when you press for the cold water, nothing comes at all.You""ll get to a series of pools, then you""re close." Sparrow""s compass was confiscated, and then he was forced to jump off the cliff to proceed alone to the ship (he was convinced to jump after his voodoo doll was thrown first), while everyone else continued on to the Fountain.]Murphy waits for him outside in the corridor""s hallway and realizes the contemptuous Hammer might take matters into his own hands with an investigation into the mystery of Christina""s murder: "You could do it a lot better, is that it?" Because of his own disdain for the law, happen-stance and because Hammer has become inspired by everyone else""s curiosity, he begins his own self-serving, mercenary quest for "something big":An ordinary little girl gets killed and it rings bells all the way to Washington.