The Comet belongs to his brother, Lou.He""s a trainee at the garbageman""s school on Wards Island.He did time a couple of years ago - assault and robbery.Sal takes three trips in one week to visit Jewish mafia boss, drug kingpin and lawyer Joel Weinstock (Harold Gary) living in a luxury Manhattan condo.They were interrupted when they heard Tony enter he townhouse""s outer front door, proceed down the hallway and insert his key into the locked apartment door.It is a Victorian house, with one pointed tower and a noisy wind generator atop.A flagpole displays the Texas Lone Star State flag.An expensive open convertible is parked in front.The unnamed owner (Sam Shepard) bites into an apple as he observes the newcomers arriving.[One could read this story as a symbolic tale of Eden like the early chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis, with its prototypical Adam and Eve characters, the natural bounty of God""s generous gifts, the biting of the apple, emptation, sin, and subsequent banishment from ""heaven"" by the coming of a fiery ""hell.] Now off the grid, Hunt described the objective of their unsanctioned IMF mission to his three rag-tag rogue team operatives, to clear he organization""s name: "Our objective is to intercept the sale, replace the authentic codes with counterfeits, and follow Wistrom to Hendricks.