The imaginative, young Danny Strode had drawn a prophetic picture of the Strodes: Mommy, Uncle Tim, Grandma and Grandpa, all with bloody knives sticking into them, as they stood next to a black object labeled "THORN.Toward the film""s conclusion, all the copies of the painting, original and fakes, were missing or stolen.Rick mentioned to Evelyn that her dreams that started six weeks earlier coincided with the start of the Egyptian New Year - the year of the Scorpion.It""s the only one I got that don""t get me into trouble.Emotionless and gentlemanly, the mild-mannered, business-like professional criminal then courteously offers to Cobby what he considers a foolproof plan that he devised in prison during his seven year sentence - his proposition is delivered with a heavy German accent:Doc: I got a proposition.