Toward the film""s conclusion, all the copies of the painting, original and fakes, were missing or stolen.After phone calls to the hotel manager, who reports the complaint by phone to Horace in the room, Travers continues to dance around, toppling a marble statue from its pedestal.Two thugs attacked them (and knocked Axel unconscious) when they returned drunk to Axel""s place.They demanded the bearer bonds that Mikey had stolen, and then one of the henchmen (revealed later to be Zack (Jonathan Banks)) murdered him with two gunshots to the head.In comparison to Apollo""s vigorous and intensive workouts, a half-hearted Rocky wasn""t as focused or intense, and his training suffered.