" Ultimately alienated, Luke had often fought the system - and lost: "I was just passin"" time, Captain.It""s not just cards, you know.It""s your future.I want you to concentrate.I hate you going back to that oyster bar.The world should be your oyster...If you""d only stop being afraid.Deal with courage.You""re, you""re a little pearl produced by that oyster bar.Une petite perle."Lou and Drug-Dealing Dave - Meeting Up at an Atlantic City Bar:After collecting his bets, Lou met with local black mobster and bookie Fred O""Reilly (John McCurry) in the Club Harlem bar (or Clifton""s), to deliver his week""s bets ($48 dollars and 6 bits or 75 cents), down from the previous week due to economics: "Everybody""s broke!" Feeling he pinch himself, Lou tried to pawn off a silver cigarette case o Fred for a "double sawbuck" ($20 dollar bill).Dunson kneels: "Wherever hey go, they""ll be on my land.My land.We""re here and we""re gonna stay here.Give me ten years and I""ll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas."As the scene dissolves to many years later after lots of hard work, Dunson predicts what the next decade and a half will bring with averbaldescription of the development of his sizable cattle enterprise - illustrated in a montage shifting almost fifteen years later to 1865:The big house will be down by the river and the corrals and the barns behind it.The platinum blonde hooker was fleeing from Indo-Chinese authorities in Saigon ("I got mixed up in a little trouble and I thought I""d stay away out of town until the gendarmes forgot about it").The killer was a mental patient who had escaped the previous night from the Smith""s Grove-Warren County Sanitarium.